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Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13432 Wednesday JULY 10, 2019 Tir 19, 1398 Dhi Al Qada 7, 1440 Shamkhani meets Leader condoles FIVB President IRIB docudrama Putin’s envoy demise of prominent Ary Graça apologizes delves into Jason 2 Shia cleric 3 to Iran volleyball 15 Rezaian spy case 16

Iran appointed vice chairman of See page 2 UIC regional assembly TEHRAN — Managing Director of the During the meeting which was attended Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known by senior officials from UIC, a number of as RAI) Saeed Rasouli was appointed as the issues such as approval of the results of first vice chairman of International Union 22nd meeting of RAME in Isfahan, report of Railways (UIC) Regional Assembly for on the activities of International Union of the Middle-East (RAME), IRIB reported Railways’ RAME Regional Office in Tehran, on Tuesday. new activities for 2019, training needs of As reported, the decision was made RAME members, determination of date during the 23rd Meeting of RAME which and venue of the next RAME meeting, and was held in Aqaba, Jordan on July 6. financial issues were discussed. 4

Military chief: British seizure of Iranian oil tanker ‘will not go unanswered’ TEHRAN – Major General Mohammad on Thursday and seized it over accusa- Baqeri, Iran’s armed forces chief of staff, tions it was breaking sanctions by taking threatened on Tuesday that the British oil to Syria. seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar Baqeri said the British navy has cap- “will not go unanswered”. tured the supertanker in retaliation for Baqeri said Iran will respond to this the “direct, transparent and courageous” move at a “proper time and place”. move of the Iranian military in shooting British Royal Marines boarded the down an intruding U.S. spy drone last ship, Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar month. 3

Yemen’s Houthis urge full withdrawal of Saudi-led coalition TEHRAN — Yemen’s Houthis have called of the Houthis’ Supreme Revolutionary Mr. Bonne, Iran’s for the full withdrawal of a military coali- Committee, tweeted. tion led by Saudi Arabia and the United “Withdrawing from Yemen is the ideal Arab Emirates after the latter said it had decision that must be taken at this time,” begun reducing its deployment in the war- he added.

torn country. Yemen’s latest conflict broke out in “We call on the aggressors to withdraw late 2014 when the Houthis, allied with from Yemen, as the Republic of Yemen forces loyal to former President Ali Ab- rejects aggression, siege and air embar- dullah Saleh, seized much of the country, File photo demands are clear! go,” Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head including the capital, Sanaa. 13

ARTICLE Major leap in Iran’s trade with Turkey PERSPECTIVE Afshin Majlesi By Mahnaz Abdi trade during spring, which corresponds to the ed just $1.26 billion of non-oil commodities from Hamid R. Gholamzadeh Tehran Times journalist TEHRAN — While the U.S. unilateral sanctions first quarter of Iranian calendar year, indicate its neighbor, Turkey, in the mentioned time span. PhD candidate in North against Iran have created some limitations for that the country’s value of non-oil exports to For the expansion of trade with the neighboring American Studies, trade with the Western partners which led the Turkey has risen five folds compared to the same countries, Iran has also put boosting trade via Tehran University Islamic Republic to expand economic and trade period of time in the previous year. border areas on agenda. Is Iran safe for ties with its neighbors and boost non-oil exports Iran exported $2.235 billion of non-oil products In this due, a memorandum of understand- Trump’s way out to them, trade with the northwestern neighbor, to Turkey in spring of this year, rising 430 percent ing (MOU) has been recently made between Americans to visit? Turkey, is growing significantly. from $421 million in spring of the previous year. Iran and Turkey for the expansion of bilateral of Iran lies out of The statistics recently released about Iran’s And it is while the Islamic Republic has import- border trade. 4 he matter of security in Iran is es- bilateral issues sentially considered as a complex Tquestion for any U.S. citizen willing Why force Iran to go Nuclear when there’s a peaceful option? ays after Iranian forces downed to visit the Islamic Republic. an intruding American drone over In this regard, Skift Inc., a New By Hossein Askari the entire Middle East and much that is beyond. The The United States and its allies (France, the UK, Dthe Iranian airspace, the stories of York City headquartered media com- MEDIUM — Let’s start by stating the obvious. The countries, beyond the original five, that have joined Israel and some Arab countries) insist that Iran latest developments and stances of the pany that provides news, research, world does not need more nuclear powers beyond the nuclear club have done so for largely defensive will not be allowed to have a nuclear warhead. two sides are still making the headlines and marketing services for the trav- the far too many it already has — China, France, reasons — when a country feels threatened, the America’s bellicose rhetoric essentially threatens across the world. Third parties are invit- el industry, has tried to answer the India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the surest and cheapest measure of self-defense and a war with Iran and its ‘annihilation’ on top of ing both Iran and the United States to question from two different points of United States and the United Kingdom. The Middle deterrent to aggression is a nuclear arsenal. This its economic war currently in place. America show restraint and deescalate the ten- view; one from the U.S. government East does not need other countries — Iran, Egypt, feeling of insecurity for some countries may have argues that Iran is bad actor; Iran is a sponsor of sion. Whereas the first news released on and the other by U.S. travel agents Turkey or Saudi Arabia — acquiring such destructive been heightened because of less than strict compli- terror; Iran is hell bent on invading other coun- the earliest hours on Thursday wreaked and tour operators. weapons; if one of these countries goes nuclear, it ance to the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation tries; and Iran interferes in the domestic affairs sort of havoc, increasing concerns over On a Monday article, the media outlet is likely that the others will follow, increasing the of Nuclear Weapons) by others. of other countries and threatens regional and eruption of any war in an already volatile noticed a hint of a “perception problem” likelihood of a nuclear disaster that could destroy Today the spotlight is on Iran going nuclear. global stability. 7 region, further details coming out cast a deemed to be fueled by the Trump admin- light on the events proving showing how istration’s rhetoric toward Iran. the shooting has apparently prevented a Official answers to the query comes from disastrous war. the U.S. State Department, which has had Assassination of my father Sheikh Zakzaky is almost done Commander of Aerospace Force of the a travel advisory against Iran since 1979, By Mohammed Ibraheem Zakzaky consulted recommended immediate hospitali- a monthly basis has now turned into a daily rou- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Amir citing “the risk of kidnapping, arrest and NIGERIA/ ZARIA — “... An assassination in zation in a properly equipped facility and other tine. And to date none of the underlying medical Ali Hajizadeh, clarified that Iran had also detention of U.S. citizens.” On the other progress and it is almost done. And the assassins medical procedures in order to try to save his issues causing these attacks has been addressed. detected another manned p8 flight and hand, tour operators who spoke with Skift are clearly determined to see it through.” life. This was over a month ago, yet nothing has When we met aside from what could be could have targeted it if it wanted. Moreo- strongly disagree, maintaining that Iran This Saturday the 6th of July 2019, I met with been done to date. visibly seen of their deteriorating condition ver, contrary to American claims that the has proven to be a safe and remarkably my father and my mother. As has already been My mother on the other hand, whose numerous such as my fathers teeth which in the space Global Hawk drone was over international hospitable place for travelers, including stated to the public before, my father was found medical issues were well known since before, of a month has turned from dark brown to waters and out of the Iranian airspace, Americans. to have unusually excessive and life threaten- has similarly received none of the care that was virtually jet black, my father also informed more and more details are being released The dilemma arises when an antag- ing concentrations of lead and cadmium in his recommended. The frequent attack of chronic me of how his condition has been worsening by Iran giving accurate coordinates of the onism intensifies between the Trump blood. As a result of this various experts we have pain which she had been suffering on average on since the last time we met. 7 route the drone went and proving Iran’s administration and Iran that makes right to react to the violation of its ter- some American tourists rethinking ritorial integrity. President Trump has plans to visit the country though nearly softened his tone, and appreciated Iran all tour operators say Iran is a safe for not targeting the other aircraft – by the and hospitable destination even for National way, IRGC’s history shows the reaction to U.S. visitors. the P8 aircraft could have been landing “It is a country that is often portrayed exhibit of and arresting the crew. American media as unwelcoming, but the reality is quite are gradually casting doubt on US claims the opposite,” said Jenny Gray, the global handicrafts and siding with Tehran’s evidence of the product and operations manager of the intrusion. Australia-based Intrepid Travel. The map of drone’s navigation shows “Iranians are warm, friendly and eager opens in Arak how long and how far the Global Hawk has gone into the Iranian airspace and removes to show off their country to foreigners. A national exhibition of handicrafts, featuring any doubt about deliberate intrusion; it The feedback from our travelers is a tes- a wide variety of ancient skills, traditions tament to this.” seems that the US has been trying Iran’s

and souvenirs, opened its doors to the public defense capabilities and resolve and it Pollak said that Iran’s rigorous visa in the central city of Arak on July 8, 2019. has surely received a tough answer. Ei- policy for Americans, a lengthy process A total of 300 stalls have been set up for ther a test of Tehran’s reaction or even that vets applicants and requires proof of the exhibit in which craftspeople and exhib- an accidental intrusion, the outcome is a having booked an authorized tour, helps itors from 31 provinces are participating. ensure a safe experience. blow to Trump Administration’s wishes Behnam Yousefi Handicrafts exports from the Islamic for negotiations with Iran! “Once they [Iranian authorities] have Republic reached $289 million in the past Over a year ago, President Trump been approved for entry [issuing visas], Iranian calendar year 1397 (ended March withdrew from the 2015 Iran Deal known people are welcomed warmly—we’ve 20), showing three percent growth year on as JCPOA after long blaming Obama never encountered a problem or even year, according to data compiled by the a cold shoulder,” said Robin Pollak, the for a ‘bad deal’ with Iran and has been

Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism campaigning for a so-called better deal president of Journeys International, which Organization. is offering Iran tours since 2015. 10 with Iran. 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS JULY 10, 2019

Shamkhani meets Government: Iran’s commitment to Putin’s envoy

POLITICAL TEHRAN — Ali Shamkhani, secretary of deskIran’s Supreme National Security Council, met JCPOA will match Europeans’ Vladimir Putin’s special envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev on Tuesday to discuss regional issues, especially the Syria crisis. POLITICAL TEHRAN — Ali Rabiei, declared by the Supreme National Security desk Lavrentiev gave a report about a trilateral meeting between the government spokes- Council, stated that the country would no longer the national security advisors of Russia, the U.S. and Israel in man, said on Tuesday that Iran’s commitment adhere to some of the limits on its nuclear Jerusalem. to the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as activities as long as sanctions are in place. It the JCPOA, will be commensurate to the also threatened to step up uranium enrich- Europeans’ commitment to the agreement. ment if an agreement is not made within 60 “We will abide by the deal as long as days to protect it from the sanctions’ effects. Europeans abide to it, and in proportion to Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Ja- their commitment,” he said during a speech hangiri said on Monday Iran has remained in ceremony marking International Day of in the nuclear deal even one year after the Cooperatives. U.S. withdrawal, however, there is a “limit He noted that all Iran’s actions regarding to patience”. the JCPOA are line with efforts to save the deal. He said that the remaining parties to the Under the JCPOA, Iran had agreed to put deal have not done the least to save the nuclear limits on parts of its nuclear activities in ex- deal after the U.S. withdrawal. change for the termination of all economic and “So, it was natural that Iran respond,” he financial sanctions. However, U.S. President added. “Russia’s clear position on Iran’s legal presence in Syria and Donald Trump withdrew Washington from Jahangiri advised the Europeans to use also opposition against maximum pressure against the Islamic the nuclear deal in May 2018 and ordered the 60-day time to protect Iran from sanc- Republic was announced in the meeting,” Lavrentiev said. sanctions on Tehran. Trump has even intro- tions so that Iran will not be forced to take It was said in the meeting that Iran is a powerful country in duced full ban on Iran’s oil export, a move retaliatory measures. the region and is a strategic partner of Russia, the envoy added. which has been described as an economic we wanted to serve the country’s interests and mechanism to protect the country from the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, U.S. war against Tehran. if we increase the purity of uranium enrich- U.S. sanctions. Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Iran’s National Security Adviser John Bolton and Israeli National Se- Ali Rabiei said, “The main objective be- ment, we know this action serves the country’s On May 8, exactly one year after the United steps in reducing its nuclear commitments curity Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat met in Jerusalem on June 19. hind the U.S. sanctions is a collapse of the interests,” he stated. States left the nuclear deal and reimposed are “reversible” only if the three European Iran and Russia have been supporting the Syrian government Iranian society…. However, our people will Iran announced on Sunday that it has sanction on Iran, Tehran announced that its countries of Britain, France, and Germany against terrorists and also militants backed by Turkey and certain pass this stage through spirit of cooperation started enriching uranium to a higher purity “strategic patience” is over and announced a (E3) honor their commitments under the Western and Arab countries. and participation.” than the 3.67%, as the Europeans missed a partial withdrawal from some aspects of the JCPA, the official name for the 2015 nuclear However, Iran, Russia and Turkey have been working together “People know that if we signed the JCPOA, 60-day deadline by Tehran to devise a concrete nuclear pact. The announcement, which was agreement. to bring an end to the war in Syria through the Astana talks and so far they have made considerable progress. Unraveling of Iran nuclear deal exposes Europe’s weakness: Foreign Policy Mr. Bonne, Iran’s demands By staff and agency impotent,” the article added. In an article published on Monday, Foreign Policy said Iran’s Ellie Geranmayeh, an Iran expert at the European Council are clear! announcement of starting enriching uranium to a higher purity on Foreign Relations, is quoted in the article as saying that has exposed the embarrassing limits of the European Union’s the slow-motion crumbling of the 2015 deal “has been one of POLITICAL TEHRAN – Emmanuel Bonne, the advisor to foreign policy when it seeks to take sides against the United States. the defining moments of the limits of European freedom of deskFrench president, will meet today with Supreme Iran officially announced on Sunday that it has started -en navigation in terms of foreign policy.” National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani in Tehran. riching uranium to a higher purity than the 3.67%, as the Euro- “If the [nuclear deal] goes down and Europe can’t salvage it, In the meeting, the European countries’ adherence to the JCPOA peans missed a 60-day deadline by Tehran to devise a concrete it carries a message for every country—not just Iran—about the – the official name for the 2015 nuclear deal - and the mechanisms mechanism to protect the country from the U.S. sanctions. relevance that Europeans can play as a global actor,” she said. to counter Washington’s unilateral sanctions will be discussed. “For European countries and the EU itself, the slow unraveling “Iran is forcing its way back up the priority list, with the Over the past week Iranian authorities have declared that Tehran of the landmark 2015 accord is a particularly brutal reminder hope that Europeans will look at some creative solutions” to would resume implementing its of the bloc’s limited ability to chart a truly independent foreign deliver some of the deal’s promised economic benefits, Ger- JCPOA commitments only once policy,” the article said. anmayeh said. the other parties to the deal do It said that European efforts to counter Trump and preserve With Europe loath to directly confront the United States much more substantial funding.” the same. the deal have come to naught. over the nuclear deal, at a time when it is trying to manage rising The EU announced on June 28 that its special financial 11 articles relating to the EU’s “EU regulations from the 1990s meant to shield European tensions over trade and NATO, Iran’s latest move to bump up mechanism for trade with Iran, known as INSTEX, has gone obligations in the deal still go firms from extraterritorial U.S. sanctions have proved hollow; its uranium enrichment levels above the 3.67 percent purity into effect. unheeded. meanwhile, Europe has spent a year trying to launch a very ceiling set in the agreement is a nudge to force Europe’s hand, INSTEX – the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges The Macron advisor’s trip to limited financial vehicle called the Instrument in Support of as well as that of Russia and China, two other signatories to - is a European special purpose vehicle aimed at facilitating Tehran comes against the back- Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) designed to insulate some trade the agreement. legitimate trade between Europe and Iran. ground of July 7, the date Iran with Iran from U.S. sanctions. But European firms, fearing Foreign Policy quoted Richard Dalton, a former British Iran says the mechanism is far short of Iran’s expectation. started its second phase of lim- U.S. sanctions, have fled from the Iranian market, contribut- ambassador to Iran, as saying, “For Europe to try harder to One of Iran’s chief demands, based on the JCPOA, is that iting its JCPOA commitments. ing to its sharp economic decline—all while Europe watched, get INSTEX really effective … Europe’s going to have consider Europe must buy oil from Iran. Iran also announced a third phase of scaling back its commit- ments will begin in two months if no decision is taken to shield Moves and remarks on Iran’s nuclear steps the country from sanctions. Iran will not be fooled by the West’s propaganda, especially POLITICAL TEHRAN – French menting all its nuclear commitments under He urged Europe to back the Trump ad- problems and greater crises on a global scale.” the European troika at this stage. deskPresident Emmanuel the deal “as the participants continue to seek ministration’s decision to impose crippling The U.S. has imposed heavy economic The only way to tackle the existing situation is for the JCPOA Macron is sending his chief diplomatic adviser ways to overcome the considerable challenges sanctions on Iran. sanctions on Iran. players, the EU in particular, to honor their commitments. to Iran following Tehran’s decision to enrich the country faces.” In recent weeks, Iran has openly breached Germany said on Monday it was refraining On one side, Macron has been talking of effective negotiations uranium beyond the threshold of the 2015 The International Atomic Energy Agency limits set by the agreement as a way of pres- from immediate measures against Iran, but with Iran and restraint from a speedy reimposition of European nuclear accord, the Associated Press reported said its inspectors verified on Monday “that suring European signatories to the deal to try would wait for the International Atomic Energy sanctions in case Iran goes on to further reduce its JCPOA un- on Monday. Iran is enriching uranium above 3.67%,” the and shore it up following the U.S. withdrawal Agency’s inspection report. dertakings. The Elysee Palace said on Monday that limit allowed under the 2015 agreement. last year. German Foreign Ministry spokesman Rainer On the other, little-known-of European diplomats, who are in Emmanuel Bonne was returning on Tuesday Iran had announced the move in recent days Semi-official news agencies in Iran earli- Breul told reporters in Berlin as soon as the fact the very top European Union officials, talk of the “snap-back” to Tehran. He had made a day-long visit last in a bid to pressure European powers to shore er reported that the country began enriching report is available, Germany will examine it mechanism and resumption of sanctions as a direct threat against month in a bid to deescalate tensions. up the nuclear accord following U.S. President uranium on Monday to 4.5%. and discuss with the others in the nuclear pact Iran as they speak to Western media such as Reuters. Europe is under pressure to try to salvage Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from In the meantime, China blamed the United — Iran, Britain, France, China and Russia — In any case, until Europe does not show strong will to carry out its the accord between Iran and world powers the agreement last year. States for the current situation over the Iran how to proceed. undertakings, no matter how often European officials make visits to after the U.S. withdrew from it last year and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nuclear deal, saying “maximum pressure” from In Russia, a Kremlin spokesman said Russia Tehran, they will not be helping to ease the existing complications. restored heavy sanctions. has been calling on world powers to escalate the Trump administration is the “root cause” was concerned about growing tensions between Macron said over the weekend that he’s pressure on Iran. of the crisis. Tehran and the U.S. over Iran’s unraveling trying to find a way to resume dialogue between Netanyahu, a longtime opponent of the Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang nuclear deal with world powers. Iran and Western partners by July 15. He spoke landmark accord that Trump abandoned, described the comprehensive agreement as Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday Russia to continue trade with on Saturday with Iranian President Hassan accused Iran on Monday of “trying to lash the only realistic and effective way to resolve the Kremlin had warned that Trump’s decision Iran regardless of U.S. sanctions Rouhani. out to reduce the pressure.” the Iranian nuclear issue and ease tensions. to withdraw the U.S. from the deal a year ago UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Netanyahu says, “It’s important to respond Geng called for a diplomatic solution, saying, would entail negative consequences to global By staff and agency Monday that Secretary-General Antonio to these actions not by reducing the pressure, “It has been proven that unilateral bullying has security. He called on all parties to use diplo- Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Guterres encourages Iran to continue imple- but by increasing the pressure.” become a worsening tumor and is creating more macy to overcome the crisis. Vladimir Chizhov has said that Russia will ignore the U.S. sanctions against Iran and will continue trade with the country without creating any special mechanisms. “Our colleagues here [in Brussels] sometimes ask why Russia Trump’s zigzags on Iran threaten U.S. alliance structure: Australian National University academic and China do not create their own INSTEX [Instrument in Support In an article on The Strategist published on Monday, Ramesh July 2015 and limited Iran’s nuclear program under international told the civilian casualty estimate or that he had ignored it initially? of Trade Exchanges]. To that we answer with the question: why Thakur, the director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and verification. Tehran continued to be independently certified as This is a shockingly casual approach to decision-making on a do we need it? We have already traded and will trade without Disarmament at Australian National University, has written that being in compliance. possible major regional war. paying any attention to U.S. sanctions,” Sputnik quoted him as U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy towards Iran is threatening Having jointly negotiated the deal, the Europeans, Russia and Former national security advisor Susan Rice thinks the downed saying on Tuesday. the U.S. alliance structure. China were upset with U.S. unilateralism. Because the UNSC had U.S. spy drone ‘just might have strayed briefly into Iranian airspace’. The day before, the Finnish government said that it was con- Below is a summary of Thakur’s article. called on states to uphold the deal’s obligations, the rest of the world Thoughtful Americans should be sobered with the extent of global sidering joining a trading system that core EU members set up Trump’s approach to foreign policy gives the impression that was troubled by the U.S. putting itself in material breach of the skepticism surrounding U.S. claims. Allies to have voiced such to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran. he ventures abroad not in search of monsters to slay, but as a bull agreement. And they tried to devise special mechanisms to shield skepticism, absent further corroborating evidence, include Germany, The EU announced on June 28 that its special financial mech- carrying a china shop on his back. He has been widely criticized Iran from punitive U.S. sanctions and continue to trade with it. Norway and Japan. They distrust U.S. motives and believe National anism for trade with Iran, known as INSTEX, has gone into effect. for erratic and impetuous decision-making and for his lack of Washington went into the second stage of its offensive by imposing Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo INSTEX – the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges - is a experience, expertise and grasp of foreign affairs—exacerbated by secondary sanctions on any country that continued to trade with are looking for a pretext to attack Iran. These allies were firmly European special purpose vehicle aimed at facilitating legitimate the hollowing out of the State Department. His purely transactional Iran in defiance of unilateral U.S. sanctions. For all the economic opposed to the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA and resent U.S. trade between Europe and Iran. approach robs U.S. foreign policy of any strategic coherence and advances by China, Washington retains unchallengeable sway in coercion to break economic ties with Iran. Iran says the mechanism is far short of Iran’s expectation. his partiality to authoritarian strongmen and disdain for allies has the global financial system buttressed by the role of the dollar as Bolton has advocated military strikes and regime change for a Iran insists the mechanism should include Iran’s oil purchases. emboldened rivals, disheartened partners and confused potential the world’s currency. This is the first time the U.S. has weaponized decade and Pompeo is not a restraining figure among Trump’s top Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s permanent representative friends. A recent example of the latter is reports of private musings its dollar-cum-financial dominance in such a generalized manner. advisers. With Trump’s own capacity for moral reflection on war to the United Nations, has likened INSTEX to a “beautiful car about terminating the defense treaty with Japan. Over-use and abuse of dominance risks blowback. and peace being highly suspect, it’s a strange feeling to welcome without gasoline”. Occasional rumblings of discontent among democratic allies are In the short term, other countries have little option but to buckle his doubts on the wisdom of a military strike and abort it. Wars “The current situation of INSTEX does not suffice. This mech- only to be expected. Nonetheless, is it conceivable that, building on to U.S. bullying. Over the long term, however, they will search for of choice have contributed to destabilizing the entire region from anism without money is like a beautiful car without gasoline,” accumulating tensions and frustrations, Trump’s actions on Iran credible alternatives in order to avoid being held hostage again. Afghanistan through the Middle East to North Africa, turning he told reporters on June 29. could rupture the structure of U.S. alliances in the North Atlantic Their net conclusion can only be that U.S. dominance is a profound countries into broken, dysfunctional societies, some of which have On Sunday, Iran announced that it has started enriching ura- and the Asia–Pacific? Michael Pascoe offers a succinct summary threat to their national sovereignty and policy autonomy and they become hotbeds and breeding grounds for terrorism: a bitter legacy nium to a higher purity than the 3.67%, as the Europeans missed of the challenge: ‘As Donald Trump’s America belittles allies, must build workarounds. Around 140 countries that have China of serially failed wars. a 60-day deadline by Tehran to devise a concrete mechanism to undermines international institutions, extends extraterritoriality, as their largest trading partner might choose to use the renminbi The biggest victors of much U.S. blood and treasure shed in protect the country from the U.S. sanctions. creates divisions,…rattles sundry sabres,…denies history, constantly in economic dealings with China. When the Eurozone crisis ends, this century thus far have been Iran and China in the regional On May 8, Iran announced a partial withdrawal from some lies and misleads, bullies and feints, when does the rest of the the euro might acquire a more prominent role. And the Europeans and global balances of power respectively. Iran’s capacity to bleed aspects of the nuclear pact, saying that the country would no world decide, enough?’ will look to rewire a de-dollarized financial global governance so America is significant. longer adhere to some of the limits on its nuclear activities. It The root cause of the current Persian Gulf crisis is the U.S. it no longer runs through the U.S. The dilemma for countries like Australia, India and Japan is also threatened to step up uranium enrichment if an agreement is withdrawal in May 2018 from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of The latest phase of the U.S. offensive is the threat and risk of that they look to the U.S. as the indispensable stabilizing force to not made within 60 days to protect it from the sanctions’ effects. Action. Negotiated with Iran by the five permanent members war. In response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. spy drone, Trump check growing Chinese assertiveness in the Pacific, but have to However, Iran has said if the remaining parties take concrete (P5) of the UN Security Council (UNSC) plus Germany and the authorized a military strike but, he said he cancelled it minutes contend with the reality of the U.S. as the primary disruptor of steps to shield Iran from sanctions it will reverse its decisions. European Union, it was unanimously endorsed by the UNSC in before the operation got underway. Which is worse—that he wasn’t stability in the Middle East. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 10, 2019 IRAN IN FOCUS

IRGC chief: We will not be Leader condoles demise of prominent Shia cleric

POLITICAL TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolu- desktion Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has voiced his overcome in any war condolences over the demise of prominent Shia cleric Grand We are actually in all-out war with the enemy, says General Salami Ayatollah Muhammad Hussaini Shahroudi.

POLITICAL TEHRAN – Commander In comments made a few hours after the deskof the IRGC, Major incident, Salami said the shooting down General Hossein Salami, said on Tuesday of the U.S. drone had a straightforward that Iran is in an “all-out war” with the enemy, message that any foreign intrusion into Mehr reported. Iranian territories would draw a crushing Addressing a conference of commanders of response. the IRGC Ground Force in Mashhad, Salami Addressing the conference, IRGC Ground said the enemy adopts different strategies, Force Commander Brigadier General including military, economic, social, political Mohammad Pakpour said the downing of and cultural ones, to counter the Islamic the American drone changed the situation Republic. in favor of the Islamic Republic. “Today, the enemy is active in all fields “This measure destroyed the United States’ and we are actually in an all-out war with grandeur, and after the incident, everyone the enemy,” he stated. realized more than ever that we are powerful,” The top general also elaborated on the he asserted. military capabilities of the IRGC Ground “The Islamic Republic of Iran has turned Force and other units of the armed forces, into an authentic regional power and this issue “I express my deepest condolences over the demise of the saying, “With the grace of God… we will is not tolerable for the U.S.,” Pakpour added. great scholar, Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussaini, to the not be defeated in any war on the ground.” The general further said his forces have seminaries of Qom and Najaf,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a Pointing to recent developments, Salami devised and exercised new strategies for message on Tuesday. said the enemy has changed its approach assault on the enemy. “I ask for God’s great blessings to him,” the Leader added. from military action to economic, political The “deep-attack doctrine” has been Ayatollah Hussaini Shahroudi was born in the holy city of and proxy war. put on the agenda of the IRGC Ground Najaf in 1925. “The animosities have grown and by the Iranian military. U.S. manned plane beside the Global Hawk Force and was even practiced during the He studied in seminaries of Najaf and Qom under Grand deepened but the strategies have declined,” The IRGC said there was another intruding but the force “refrained” from targeting it. “Payambar-e Azam 12” war game held on Ayatollah Hashem Amoli, Grand Ayatollah Syed Jamaluddin he remarked. the southern coasts of Iran in December Golpaygani, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hussaini Shahroudi and Grand Ayatollah Abdul Hussain Rashti. Last month, in the latest episode of the IRGC chief says the enemy has changed its 2018, he explained. Tehran-Washington tensions, a U.S. Global Pakpour added that the IRGC Ground Hawk spy drone violated Iranian airspace approach from military action to economic, Force will strengthen the necessary training and was downed by the IRGC Aerospace political and proxy war. programs and equipment on the basis of Bolton claims Trump Force after it ignored repeated warnings the new doctrine. admin’s pressure campaign against Iran is working

Ambassador: Good measures taken for release of Sheikh Zakzaky POLITICAL TEHRAN – U.S. national security adviser deskJohn Bolton has claimed that the Trump POLITICAL TEHRAN – Iranian Am- tions and according to the instructions of the In 2016, Nigeria’s federal high court ordered administration’s pressure campaign against Iran is working. deskbassador to Nigeria Morteza Foreign Ministry, and has been in contact with his unconditional release from jail following a “I am here to tell you today President Trump’s pressure Rahimi has underlined the efforts made by the various sides,” he said. trial, but the government has so far refused to campaign against Iran is working,” Bolton said at the Christians Islamic Republic for the release of top Shiite cleric The ambassador added that as a result of the set him free. United for Israel conference in Washington on Monday. and leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria measures, the Nigerian authorities have tak- The top cleric, who is in his mid-sixties, lost Bolton who is notoriously famous for his anti-Iran remarks (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. en an effective step toward providing medical his left eyesight in a raid which was carried out again accused Iran of seeking “Good measures have been taken by various treatment for Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife by by the Nigerian army on his residence in the to build nuclear weapons. sides for the treatment and release of Sheikh allowing a medical team to examine the two. northern town of Zaria in December 2015. “We will continue to Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife,” Rahimi said, Sheikh Zakzaky has been held in detention During the raid, Zakzaky’s wife sustained increase the pressure on Tasnim reported on Tuesday. since December 2015 and was charged just in serious wounds too and more than 300 of his the Iranian regime until it “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s embassy has April 2018 with murder, culpable homicide, followers and three of his sons were killed. abandons its nuclear weapons also taken intensive and useful steps within the unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace Zakzaky, his wife, and a large number of the program and ends its violent framework of the two countries’ political rela- and other accusations. He has pleaded not guilty. cleric’s followers have since been in custody. activities across the Middle East, including conducting and supporting terrorism around the world,” he said, according Trump’s zigzags on Iran threaten U.S. alliance structure: to Reuters. However, Bolton and others who make similar claims don’t Australian National University academic say that if Iran is actually seeking In an article on The Strategist published on ized a military strike but, he said he cancelled to build nuclear arms why has Monday, Ramesh Thakur, the director of the it minutes before the operation got underway. it signed the NPT and agreed to Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Dis- Which is worse—that he wasn’t told the civilian the most robust inspection regime by the UN nuclear watchdog. armament at Australian National University, casualty estimate or that he had ignored it ini- Bolton’s remarks comes two days after Tehran announced has written that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tially? This is a shockingly casual approach to that it would start to enrich uranium to a higher purity than policy towards Iran is threatening the U.S. al- decision-making on a possible major regional war. the 3.67% in response to U.S. sanctions and Europe’s inaction. liance structure. Former national security advisor Susan Rice Iran’s chief demand is that Tehran be permitted to export Below is a summary of Thakur’s article. thinks the downed U.S. spy drone ‘just might have crude oil at the same levels before the U.S. reimposed sanctions. Trump’s approach to foreign policy gives the strayed briefly into Iranian airspace’. Thoughtful Under the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the JCPOA, impression that he ventures abroad not in search Americans should be sobered with the extent Iran had agreed to put limits on parts of its nuclear activities of monsters to slay, but as a bull carrying a china of global skepticism surrounding U.S. claims. in exchange for the termination of all economic and financial shop on his back. He has been widely criticized Allies to have voiced such skepticism, absent sanctions. for erratic and impetuous decision-making and further corroborating evidence, include Ger- The step taken by Iran on Sunday was the second of its for his lack of experience, expertise and grasp of many, Norway and Japan. They distrust U.S. kind. In the first step announced on May 8, Iran announced foreign affairs—exacerbated by the hollowing out motives and believe National Security Advisor that it will not sell its stockpile of enriched uranium enriched of the State Department. His purely transactional John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to 3.67 percent. approach robs U.S. foreign policy of any strategic ification. Tehran continued to be independently dominance in such a generalized manner. Over- are looking for a pretext to attack Iran. These It came exactly a year after President Donald Trump withdrew coherence and his partiality to authoritarian certified as being in compliance. use and abuse of dominance risks blowback. allies were firmly opposed to the U.S. withdrawal the United States from the JCPOA. The exit followed by introducing strongmen and disdain for allies has embold- Having jointly negotiated the deal, the Eu- In the short term, other countries have little from the JCPOA and resent U.S. coercion to the harshest ever sanctions on Tehran in a clear violation of ened rivals, disheartened partners and confused ropeans, Russia and China were upset with U.S. option but to buckle to U.S. bullying. Over the break economic ties with Iran. the UN Security Council resolution 2231 and pressuring other potential friends. A recent example of the latter unilateralism. Because the UNSC had called on long term, however, they will search for credible Bolton has advocated military strikes and countries to violate the same resolution by cutting economic is reports of private musings about terminating states to uphold the deal’s obligations, the rest alternatives in order to avoid being held hostage regime change for a decade and Pompeo is not a ties with Iran. the defense treaty with Japan. of the world was troubled by the U.S. putting again. Their net conclusion can only be that U.S. restraining figure among Trump’s top advisers. Occasional rumblings of discontent among itself in material breach of the agreement. And dominance is a profound threat to their nation- With Trump’s own capacity for moral reflection democratic allies are only to be expected. None- they tried to devise special mechanisms to shield al sovereignty and policy autonomy and they on war and peace being highly suspect, it’s a theless, is it conceivable that, building on accu- Iran from punitive U.S. sanctions and continue must build workarounds. Around 140 countries strange feeling to welcome his doubts on the Iran, Japan discuss legal mulating tensions and frustrations, Trump’s to trade with it. that have China as their largest trading partner wisdom of a military strike and abort it. Wars actions on Iran could rupture the structure Washington went into the second stage of its might choose to use the renminbi in economic of choice have contributed to destabilizing the co-op in Tokyo offensive by imposing secondary sanctions on dealings with China. When the Eurozone crisis of U.S. alliances in the North Atlantic and the entire region from Afghanistan through the Mid- POLITICAL TEHRAN – Iran and Japan have held legal Asia–Pacific? Michael Pascoe offers a succinct any country that continued to trade with Iran in ends, the euro might acquire a more prominent dle East to North Africa, turning countries into deskconsultations in Tokyo, where the two sides summary of the challenge: ‘As Donald Trump’s defiance of unilateral U.S. sanctions. For all the role. And the Europeans will look to rewire a broken, dysfunctional societies, some of which highlighted the need to forge closer cooperation on major issues America belittles allies, undermines international economic advances by China, Washington retains de-dollarized financial global governance so it have become hotbeds and breeding grounds for related to international law, According to the Foreign Ministry institutions, extends extraterritoriality, creates unchallengeable sway in the global financial no longer runs through the U.S. terrorism: a bitter legacy of serially failed wars. website reported on Tuesday. divisions,…rattles sundry sabres,…denies history, system buttressed by the role of the dollar as The latest phase of the U.S. offensive is the The biggest victors of much U.S. blood and During the talks, the two sides stressed their determination constantly lies and misleads, bullies and feints, the world’s currency. This is the first time the threat and risk of war. In response to Iran’s treasure shed in this century thus far have been to further enhance ties on all fronts. when does the rest of the world decide, enough?’ U.S. has weaponized its dollar-cum-financial downing of a U.S. spy drone, Trump author- Iran and China in the regional and global bal- The root cause of the current Persian Gulf ances of power respectively. Iran’s capacity to crisis is the U.S. withdrawal in May 2018 from the “They (Washington’s allies) distrust U.S. bleed America is significant. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Negotiated motives and believe National Security The dilemma for countries like Australia, with Iran by the five permanent members (P5) of India and Japan is that they look to the U.S. the UN Security Council (UNSC) plus Germany Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State as the indispensable stabilizing force to check and the European Union, it was unanimously Mike Pompeo are looking for a pretext to growing Chinese assertiveness in the Pacific, but endorsed by the UNSC in July 2015 and limited have to contend with the reality of the U.S. as the Iran’s nuclear program under international ver- attack Iran.” primary disruptor of stability in the Middle East.

Military chief: British seizure of Iranian oil tanker ‘will not go unanswered’ 1 Iran has condemned the British government’s move kind of piracy,” Hatami said. ic Republic has shown that it is not seeking war with other as “maritime piracy” and summoned Britain’s ambassador On Sunday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi countries. three times in protest. Tehran has vowed to employ all its denied reports that the supertanker was carrying oil to Syria. The military chief criticized Western countries for failing They said Tehran and Tokyo welcome the promotion of mu- political and legal capacities to secure the release of the vessel “Contrary to Britain’s announcement, the tanker was not to secure Iran’s interests under the 2015 nuclear deal, saying tual cooperation as well as constructive and fruitful negotiations and uphold its rights. bound for Syria, and the port mentioned is not capable of it is not Iran but the enemy that lacks commitment to its on key issues related to international law as well as issues of Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami also said on Monday receiving such a tanker,” Araqchi told reporters at a news obligations. mutual concern. that Britain’ act in seizing the oil tanker was an act of piracy conference in Tehran. He also said Iran’s downing of the U.S. drone is a testament The delegations of both countries also exchanged views on “which will not be tolerated”. On Monday, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has also said, to Tehran’s growing military power. ways of boosting mutual understanding and legal cooperation “We have witnessed a provocative act by the British gov- “Iran is neither a member of the EU nor subject to any Eu- “Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran enjoys the necessary in regional and international circles. ernment against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s oil tanker in ropean oil embargo.” He added, “The EU was against ex- power in the missile, naval and air defense spheres, and this The two sides also underscored the necessity of pressing ahead Gibraltar. This action is against international regulation and traterritoriality.” fact has posed a serious challenge to one of the enemy’s strong with consultations between the two countries and agreed the the Europeans commitments under the JCPOA and is also a In his Tuesday remarks, General Baqeri said the Islam- points, namely its aerial and missile capability.” second round of the consultations be held in Tehran next year. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY JULY 10, 2019

STOCK MARKET Vice president inaugurates water, TEDPIX 248716.3 IFX 3222.44 Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir electricity projects in Fars Province ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iranian of Jahrom Power Plant into steam ones has deskFirst Vice President been awarded to the private sector. Es’haq Jahangiri inaugurated two steam The water treatment unit with the capacity CURRENCIES units of a combined-cycle power plant and of 17,000 cubic meters came on stream at the USD 42,000 rials a water treatment unit in Jahrom County cost of 2 trillion rials (about $47.6 million) EUR 47,096 rials in southern province of Fars on Tuesday, and putting it into operation drinking water IRNA reported. will be supplied from Salman Farsi Dam GBP 52,547 rials Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian to Jahrom. was also present in the inaugural ceremony Building 50 kilometers of transferring AED 11,437 rials of the mentioned units. pipeline, two pumping stations, and four Source: cbi.ir The steam units of Jahrom Combine- tanks each with the capacity of reserving cycle Power plant, each with the generation 17,000 cubic meters of water were some capacity of 320 megawatts (MW), were put other measures taken for this project. into operation at the cost of $375 million, and The operation for building this treatment through their operation some $120 million plant was started some nine years ago. COMMODITIES will be annually saved through customizing Jahrom County is located 193 kilometers Brent $64.48/b on gas input of 750 million cubic meters. Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri inaugurated a water treatment unit and southeast of Shiraz, the capital city of Fars WTI $57.96/b The projects for changing the gas units two steam units of a combined-cycle power plant in Fars Province on Tuesday. Province. OPEC Basket $63.55/b Gold $1,390.65/oz Comprehensive plan underway to amend Tehran hosting intl. doors, Silver $15.06/oz tax system: fin. min. windows exhibition Platinium $811.25/oz ECONOMY TEHRAN — Tax sys- reducing the current year’s budget depend- ECONOMY TEHRAN — The 11h egations from Oman, Qatar, Afghanistan, Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com desktem is being amended ency on oil exports is the most important deskedition of Doors and Iraq, Turkmenistan and the Republic of in the country through implementing the economic objective in the country; and his Windows Technology International Ex- Azerbaijan are also going to visit the ex- Comprehensive Tax Plan, Iran’s Finance and ministry is seriously following up defined hibition of Iran (Do-Win Tech 2019) kicked hibition to hold talks and negotiate with Economic Affairs Minister stated. tax policies to this end. off on Tuesday at the Tehran Permanent the participating companies. Liquidity at $448b in a year: CBI The minister made the remarks in a meet- The proposed 17.03 quadrillion rials International Fairgrounds, IRNA reported. Introducing the country’s potentials ing of the cabinet and Majlis Economic Com- ($405 billion) budget bill for this Iranian The four-day exhibition was opened and capabilities in this industry, creat- ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran’s liquidity stood at 18.82 quad- mittee members on Monday, IRIB reported. year (started on March 21) has envisaged in a ceremony attended by the Iranian ing investment and trade opportunities, deskrillion rials (about $448.095 billion) in the past Dejpasand said the mentioned plan 1.53 quadrillion rials (about $36.5 billion) Industry, Mining and Trade Minister Reza introducing worldwide innovations and Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20, 2019), IRIB reported consists of 32 significant programs and 97 of tax income. Rahmani. advances in the window industry, intro- citing a report released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). percent of it has been already realized. The minister has also stressed that an As reported, over 300 Iranian and for- ducing a competitive environment for the The CBI announced that the liquidity figure shows 22.1 percent To minimize the effects of sanctions on efficient tax system should be a priority in eign companies from different countries domestic and foreign companies, as well as growth year on year. the country’s economy, Iran is adopting the government’s policy making. including China, Germany, Turkey and introducing direct communication between During a meeting held two weeks ago, CBI Governor Abdolnasser some new economic approaches and the A non-oil budget requires other stable Italy are participating in this year’s exhi- producers and consumers, presenting new Hemmati discussed controlling liquidity with the country’s economists. main important one is to reduce reliance income sources. bition to showcase their latest products job opportunities and finding New export Reforming the structure of the country’s banking system, curb- on the oil revenues. In a message on the occasion of the Na- and services. markets are some of the main goals of ing inflation, removing barriers in the way of production, improving To materialize this objective, the country tional Day of Tax (July 7), Dejpasand stressed According to the organizers, many this exhibition. the people’s livelihood and preventing income imbalances through has put strengthening domestic production, the necessity of planning for using stable knowledge-based companies and start- Last year some 356 Iranian exhibitors monetary and fiscal policies, and the impact of U.S. sanctions and boosting non-oil exports specially to the non-oil income. ups are attending this year’s exhibition alongside 54 foreign companies from Italy, enforcement of bank operations were among the other issues raised neighbor countries, and collecting taxes He wrote the sanctions should be con- and various specialized workshops are also China, Bulgaria, Spain, Turkey, Germany in the meeting. more systematically on top of its economic sidered an opportunity to reform the budget scheduled to be held on the sidelines of and the UAE participated in the Do-Win policies. structure and to take the advantage of tax the event. TECH show, which is Iran’s biggest event Earlier this month, Dejpasand said that potential. This year at least six foreign trade del- in the windows and doors industry. Iran appointed vice chairman of UIC regional assembly 1 The 22nd RAME was held on November 26, 2018 in ‘Boosting garments output, exports on current year’s agenda’ Isfahan, Iran in the presence of UIC Director General, RAME chair- ECONOMY TEHRAN — The chairman of Iran’s Union The official further pointed to some of the potent areas man and vice-chairmen, acting governor general of Isfahan, UIC deskof Garments Manufacturers and Sellers said which could be worked on in order to increase exports includ- coordinator for Middle East, Railways presidents of the member that boosting garment output and exports is a top agenda of ing home appliances, apparel industry, petrochemicals, and states, some RAI managers, and representative of ECO. their activities in the current Iranian calendar year (began marine industries, basic metals such as steel, aluminum and Addressing the Isfahan assembly, the time Managing Director on March 21, 2019). copper as well as agriculture. of RAI Saied Mohammadzadeh called for establishment of an In an interview by Tasnim news agency, Abolqasem Shirazi Domestic units meet 70-80 percent of garment need integrated railway network in the region saying, “Iran expects this also announced about exports of garments to Afghanistan, According to the chairman of Iran’s Union of Garments regional assembly meeting to focus on establishing an integrated Iraq, Russia and Yemen. Manufacturers and Sellers, domestic units are supplying 70- network and a coordinated management in order to achieve higher Increasing non-oil exports to the neighboring countries is 80 percent of the requirement for clothing inside the country. efficiency.” one of the major plans that Iranian government is pursuing Shirazi said, “After the ban imposed on the imports of The official further praised UIC’s supports for Middle East in the current year. clothing, domestic units are taking all endeavors to boost the railway activities stressing the needs for acceleration of cooperation Iran shares border with fifteen countries, namely the United quality and quantity of their products in a way that we saw and strong support for regional programs and projects. Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, planned that the annual export of commodities and services no shortage in clothing market before the new year holiday According to Mohammadzadeh, due to its strategic location, Oman, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Kazakhstan, to Iran’s 15 neighbor countries will reach $32 billion in the (early March).” Iran has a privileged position which makes it potent for becoming Armenia, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. current Iranian calendar year. He also mentioned seriously combatting with smuggling a transit hub in the region. Based on the data published by Trade Promotion Organiza- Making the remarks in a meeting with the members of Iran’s in garment market. Having several free trade zones, especially in the Persian Gulf tion (TPO), the value of trade with the neighboring countries Free Trade Zone Fraction, the official mentioned supporting The current Iranian calendar year of 1398 is named as region, the existence of a wide network of roads in the country, low stood at over $36.5 billion in the past Iranian calendar year, exports by the production units as another plan of the ministry the year of «Pickup in Production» by Leader of the Islamic prices for fuel and energy carriers in Iran, and a suitable rail trans- that is about 41 percent of the country’s total non-oil trade in in this year which is named the Year of Pickup in Production. Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. port network in the country are some of the country’s advantages. the mentioned time span. In mid-April, Iranian industry, mining and trade minister The realization of this motto toward Iran’s self-reliance Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Iran plans to launch 15 mega export projects to identify said the country plans to double its exports to the neighboring is in fact the only way to tackle the U.S. cruel sanctions on Oman, Qatar, and the UAE are members of UIC regional assembly more target markets, according to TPO head. countries by the Iranian calendar year of 1400 (which starts Iran’s economy. for Middle East. Mohammadreza Modoudi said with the implementation of in March 2021). Last week, deputy minister of industry, mining and trade these projects, which mainly focus on the markets of neighbor- Mentioning the fact that only two percent of the total im- announced that the ministry will launch a comprehensive system ing countries, identifying professional trade and promoting ports of Iran’s neighbors comes from the Islamic country, for registration of domestically-made products in near future. Major leap in Iran’s trade export of non-oil commodities will be put on agenda, Mehr Reza Rahmani noted that his ministry is going to focus on Farshad Moqimi said this transparent mechanism will lay news agency reported. developing domestic production and defining new projects the ground for introducing different industries and industrial with Turkey Also on June 24, Sadeq Najafi, the senior advisor to Iran’s to manufacture all the industrial equipment needed inside capabilities aiming to strengthen domestic production, IRIB 1 The MOU was signed by Mohammad Abedi, the gov- industry, mining and trade minister, said the ministry has the country. reported. ernor of Iran’s Khoy Country in northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, and Mehmet Emin Bilmez, the governor of Turkey’s Van Province, during the meeting of Iran-Turkey Joint Commit- tee of Border Cooperation held at the office of Khoy governor U.S.-China trade war will hit ASEAN economy harder: JCER survey last week. While sanctions have created some problems in the way of trade By Kiyoshi Kusaka “Similar to other exporting countries, Thailand growth achieved in 2018/19. The growth rate between the two sides, they are continuing and even strength- is likely to suffer from the global economic in January-March in 2019 reached a five-year ening bilateral transactions, as in mid-June, the head of Iran- The outlook for major Asian economies has slowdown and trade war this year,” said Pa- low of 5.8% due to various reasons including Turkey Joint Chamber of Commerce said Turkey’s trade center once again been revised downward, due to nundorn Aruneeniramarn of Thailand’s Siam the slowing world economy, uncertainty in in Tehran is completely active and the trade is going smoothly the negative influence of the U.S.-China trade Commercial Bank Economic Intelligence Center. politics and weaker rural consumption. between the two countries. war, which has caused exports to fall across The drag on growth to continue The political uncertainty has now subsided “Although there are small problems with money transactions the region. The 2019 growth forecast for the The “drag on growth is expected to continue following the landslide victory of Prime Minister but still we manage and the trade is going on smoothly,” Reza five Association of Southeast Asian Nations until the trade outlook clears,” echoed Randolph Narendra Modi’s party in the general election nial Asia in Singapore commented that “it will Kami told ILNA. members was 4.3%, marking the fourth con- Tan of Singapore University of Social Sciences. which completed in May. take time for trade restrictions to ease” even Kami noted that Turkish companies are willing to contribute secutive downward revision since a survey in On the Malaysian economy, which also depends The central bank in early June lowered the if the talks resume. the reconstruction projects in Iran’s flood-stricken regions, say- September 2018. heavily on exports, Wan Suhaimie of Kenanga policy rate by 0.25 points to 5.75%, the third Some economists expressed their con- ing, “Turkish companies have a good history in manufacturing The Indian economy is still likely to main- Investment Bank saw that “downside risks to rate cut in 2019. Sonal Varma of Nomura India cerns over further escalation of the tensions. prefabricated houses, and in recent years we have seen that a tain growth of nearly 7%, but that projection is growth remain” because of “amplified global projected a recovery after the summer “due to Amonthep Chawla of CIMB Thai Bank said: few Turkish companies were active in Mehr Housing Projects.” lower than it was. Recognizing the U.S.-China uncertainties largely from the protracted U.S.- the lagged effects of easier monetary policy.” “I would be more worried if the trade war es- He further mentioned establishment of an Iran-Turkey special tensions as the biggest risk for their economies, China negotiations.” Still, she was cautious about downside risks calates to a currency war or tech war.” Such a economic zone, noting that the two sides are determined in this Asian economists believe that the uncertainty The Indonesian and Philippine economies “from a weak shadow banking sector.” situation could “force Thai investors to take regard but there are still some issues that should be discussed will continue, a survey found. are expected to keep high growth rates of 5% The survey asked economists about the ef- sides either with the U.S. or China,” he added. and resolved. The Japan Center for Economic Research and 6%, respectively, but the 2019 forecasts fects, both already realized and still emerging, of Dharmakirti Joshi of CRISIL in India said: Mentioning the impact of sanctions on trade between the two and Nikkei conducted a quarterly consensus were revised downward. “Economic growth the U.S.-China tensions. A slowdown in exports, The “U.S.-China trade tensions have given rise to countries, Kami said: “The Turkish authorities have repeatedly survey from June 7 to 28, gaining responses is challenged by the trade war between U.S. especially those headed to China, was given in a new set of challenges as well as opportunities stated that they are not going to comply with the U.S. sanctions, from 43 economists and analysts in five of the and China” as it would decrease commodity many of the responses from ASEAN countries. for the Indian economy.” In a rapidly changing but obviously the sanctions have created some problems regard- biggest members of ASEAN -- Indonesia, Ma- prices as well as export opportunities, remarked A trend of relocating production sites from global economic environment, the “ability of ing banking relations, and it should be also borne in mind that laysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand Dendi Ramdani of Bank Mandiri Indonesia. China to other Asian countries was notable. the government to handle the challenges to the the entire region’s economy is in recession.” -- as well as India. The Philippine economy temporarily slowed The survey responses also indicated the economy will be tested,” remarked Randolph In early June, Iran’s Ambassador to Turkey Mohammad Far- The weighted average of growth forecasts down in the January-March period due partly to difference between nations in terms of the Tan of Singapore University of Social Sciences. azmand announced that Iran and Turkey are working on a finan- for the ASEAN5 in 2019 was 4.3%, revised a delay in its budget being approved, but Alvin impact from the trade war. A decrease in the As for the risks that economists have recog- cial mechanism channel to bypass the U.S. unilateral sanctions. down by 0.3 points from the previous survey Ang of Ateneo de Manila University predicted price of palm oil and other commodities was nized, “a slowdown or decrease in trade trig- The ambassador said that such mechanism is aimed at prevent- in March -- the fourth consecutive downward a recovery. The passage of the delayed budget affecting the Indonesia economy, while India gered by U.S.-China tensions surrounding trade ing bilateral trade from falling victim to trans-regional players. revision since September 2018. The figure was and consequent increase in public expenditure was an increase in its exports to China. and/or high tech issues” was the largest risk Also, in mid-May, Turkish Ambassador to Iran Derya Ors 5.0% in the June 2018 survey. The latest fig- would put the growth “back on track,” he said. Future talks on trade cited in all six countries. A sense of the risk to had said that his country wanted the barriers in the way of trade ure of 4.3% is 0.5 points lower than the 4.8% Still, he cautioned that “exports (will) weaken U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese political instability generally diminished in the with Iran to be removed. achieved in 2018. further” if the U.S.-China trade war escalates. President Xi Jinping met in Osaka, Japan, in region. It was the biggest risk in India in the He said: “If these obstacles, which are mainly related to Iran’s The outlook was downgraded in all five India’s growth projection for 2019/20 was late June and agreed to reopen trade talks, March survey, but no economist considered regulations, are removed, Turkish businessmen and investors countries, but the drops were most notable 6.9%, revised down 0.2 points from the previous but the future development of their relations this risk in the June survey. will be willing to come and invest in Iran.” in export-oriented Thailand and Singapore. survey. It was just 0.1 point higher than the 6.8% remains unclear. Manu Bhaskaran of Centen- (Source: asia.nikkei.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 10, 2019 ENERGY 5

Iranian H1 hydropower output OPEC asks quick resolution of U.S.-Venezuela-Iran tension

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) seen to be quadrupled on Monday called for a “quick” resolution of the conflicts following the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Iran -- two founding members ENERGY TEHRAN — The elec- The figure was reported to be 1.8 billion of the organization. desktricity output of Iran’s KWh in the last year’s same time span. As reported by Turkish Anadolu Agency, the affected countries hydroelectric power plants is expected to In late April, Deputy Distribution would remain exempted from the implementation of the oil supply reach 20,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) in the Coordinator of Iran’s Power Generation adjustment of 1.2 million barrels a day owing to their situation, first half of the current Iranian calendar and Distribution Company (known as Mohammad Barkindo, the secretary general of OPEC told reporters year (to end on September 22), four times TAVANIR), Mahmoud Reza Haqifam, in Vienna, according to a Nigerian daily, This Day. more than the figure for last year’s same announced that recent heavy rainfalls in The decision is taken due to the situation confronting Venezuela period, IRIB reported on Monday. Iran has increased the electricity output and Iran and the effects of the sanctions and how it will affect their According to the Head of Iran Water and of the country’s hydropower plants by up production, Barkindo said. Power Resources Development Company to 5,000 megawatts. He added that Libya will remain exempted together with these (IWPC), Behrouz Moradi, a newly constructed According to Haqifam, in the peak con- two countries. hydroelectric power plant is also going to go sumption hours of the day, between 9,500 “For us we will welcome a resolution of the issues that are at on stream in near future which will add 50 MW and 10,000 MW of electricity is charged stake between these countries and the U.S. sanctions distort mar- megawatts to the country’s power genera- to the network by hydropower plants. kets and further complicate our efforts with non-OPEC members tion capacity in its first phase of operation. Iran’s current power generation ca- to maintain stability,” Barkindo said. “At the second phase, the plant’s power pacity stands at about 81 GW of which He stressed those geopolitical tensions are “inimical” to stability generation capacity will reach 100 MW,” the share of hydroelectric power stands across the world and the organization is looking forward to world Moradi said in a press conference. at 19.87 percent. leaders to continue to do their best to ensure that conflicts on trade The official put the country’s hydroelec- In late May, the Energy Ministry an- and military are avoided. tric power plants’ output in the first quarter lectric Power Plants Management Center According to Estiri, since the begin- nounced that it plans to inaugurate 22 “The world needs peace and stability to ensure growth and of the current fiscal year at 4400 GWh, Farbod Estiri said Iran’s hydroelectric pow- ning of the current Iranian calendar year new units with a total capacity of 3,933 development,” he added. saying that so far IWPC has constructed er plants are expected to produce 10,500 (March 20) up to mid-June, over 10.8 MW in the current [Iranian calendar] year The U.S. blacklisted Venezuelan state-owned oil company PD- over 12,020 MW capacity of hydropower megawatts (10.5 gigawatts) of electricity in billion kilowatt hour (KWh) of electricity along with upgrading and increasing the VSA in January, expecting to block $7 billion in assets and cause plants across the country. the current Iranian calendar year (March was produced by the country’s hydroe- efficiency of existing power plants to add $11 billion of lost export revenue over the next year. Last Month, Director of Iran’s Hydroe- 2019-March 2020). lectric plants. another 461 MW of new capacity. National Security Adviser John Bolton also put foreign banks on notice, saying any financial institutions caught engaging in “illegal transactions that benefit Nicolas Maduro and his corrupt network” will face economic penalties. First sanction package for Iran was launched by the Washington Iran to expand Mahshar petchem hub to add 6m tons of new capacity administration on Aug. 7, 2018 following a unilateral withdrawal of ENERGY TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s National by implementing 14 petrochemical projects in this pet- the U.S. from a nuclear agreement between Iran and five big nations. deskPetrochemical Company (NPC) unveiled rochemical complex, 15 million tons would be added to The second sanction package was implemented against Tehran a plan for construction of a new petrochemical hub in the country’s production capacity. on Nov. 5, in the same year. Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in or- In December 2018, Mohammadi had announced that der to add up to six million tons (mt) of new capacity the company was planning to establish the country’s to the zone. third biggest petrochemical complex following Asalouyeh As reported by IRNA, speaking in the annual general and Mahshahr. Australia’s first offshore assembly of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone on The new petrochemical hub was planned to be es- wind project moves forward Monday, Behzad Mohammadi noted that NPC is seeking tablished by the oil ministry in collaboration with the two main goals in Mahshahr zone, one of which is main- ministry of industry, mining and trade. with labor market study taining the current output levels and the other, which is In late May, Mohammadi said that Iranian oil ministry more important and of higher priority, is development plans to complete 20 prioritized petrochemical projects By Michael Mazengarb of the zone and attracting and facilitating investment. across the country by the end of the Iranian calendar “In Mahshahr’s grand scheme, development of down- year of 1400 (March 2022). Plans for Australia’s first offshore wind farm have taken a step stream and mid-stream industries is given great impor- The official noted that there were 64 petrochemical forward, with the project developers launching a labor market tance,” he said adding that the Zone’s development plan projects underway across the country with physical pro- study to identify the capability of the Australian market to deliver is going through revision and preparation. gresses between 20 and 99 percent. what would be one of Australia’s largest renewable energy projects. In early June, NPC signed a memorandum of under- Iran is currently producing nearly 56 million tons of The Star of the South wind farm, which is being pursued by the standing with the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries petrochemicals each year of which 21 million tons is being Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) for exported to 30 different destinations across the globe. Partners would be the first offshore wind farm in the southern establishing a new petrochemical complex in Hormozgan Petrochemical industry is one of the most important hemisphere, requiring the first of its kind deployment of wind Province adjacent to Persian Gulf waters. pillars of Iran’s economy and one of the main suppliers turbines off the Victorian coast. According to IMIDRO Head Khodadad Gharibpour, of foreign currency especially euro for the country. The project proposed off the Gippsland coast in the south of Victoria has a planned capacity of up to 2,200MW and would be expected to produce roughly the same amount of energy each year as the now de-commissioned Hazelwood brown-coal power station. In undertaking the labor market study, the project will examine Oil prices drop on signs global economy slowing amid trade disputes the skills and workforce requirements needed to complete the Oil fell on Tuesday amid worries over the outlook for demand in Bangkok. project, including the availability of specialized vessels required after the latest signs that international trade disputes have Iran on Monday threatened to restart deactivated to provide both construction and maintenance services to the been dragging on the global economy, although the potential centrifuges and step up its enrichment of uranium to 20% in offshore wind turbines. for conflicts in the Middle East offered support to prices. a move that further threatens the 2015 nuclear agreement Procuring new vessels As per reuters.com, Brent crude futures were down 21 that Washington abandoned last year. Star of the South says there cents, or 0.3%, at $63.90 a barrel by 0343 GMT. They fell Washington has imposed sanctions that eliminate is likely to be a need to facilitate 12 cents on Monday. benefits Iran was meant to receive in return for agreeing the training of local workers in U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down to curbs on its nuclear program under the 2015 deal with the skills required to deploy and 25 cents, or 0.4%, at $57.41 a barrel. They rose 15 cents in world powers. maintain offshore wind turbines, the previous session. The confrontation has brought the United States and given it is the first of its type for Oil prices are being pressured by ongoing worries about Iran close to conflict. Last month, U.S. President Donald the country. Likewise, the study demand as the U.S.-China trade war, heading into its second Trump called off air strikes at the last minute in retaliation will identify the need to procure year, dampens prospects for global economic growth, which for Iran shooting down a U.S. drone over the Persian new dedicated vessels that may be strongly impacts oil demand growth. The countries are the Gulf, which followed attacks on two oil product tankers required to support the project. world’s two largest oil consumers. The country is the fourth-largest crude user in the world. in the nearby Gulf of Oman by unidentified assailants. The study will be completed by Japan’s core machinery orders fell by the most in eight The “weaker global economic outlook is keeping oil Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs said growth in U.S. shale Atlas Professionals, an HR service months, data showed on Monday, in a sign the global trade prices under downward pressure, but tensions in the Middle production was likely to outpace that of global demand provider with previous experience tensions are taking a toll on corporate investment. East are enhancing awareness to possible supply risk and at least through 2020, limiting gains in oil prices despite in advising the delivery of offshore Japanese government figures on Tuesday also showed should keep a floor under oil in the medium term,” said output curbs led by the Organization of the Petroleum projects through Europe. that real wages in the country fell for a fifth straight month. Stephen Innes, managing partner at Vanguard Markets Exporting Countries. “We are excited to work to- gether with Star of the South and be part of the development of Australia’s first offshore wind project. Since starting our renewable energy activities earlier this year, we have managed to get engagements in Australia, South Korea, Tai- Powering the global energy challenge wan, Singapore and Japan,” Atlas Professionals’ regional director By Cynthia NG during his recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. Here the best materials to protect the environment. of renewables Edgare Kerkwijk said. are snippets of the conversation. Grassroots movement “This is evidence that the regional offshore wind market is growing Climate change is one of the biggest challenges The conceptualization of the global energy There’s a whole architecture movement rapidly, and the need for skilled manpower is growing equally fast.” of our time and fossil fuel emissions is by far challenge and its objective: in Kuala Lumpur that’s been around for ten The Federal government granted the project approvals to com- the greatest contributor to climate change. To The “target (under the Paris climate years but nobody really talks about it. This mence site exploration back in March, allowing the wind farm devel- reduce emissions, the world needs to transition accord) is to limit global warming to below grassroots movement is proving that you opers to identify optimal siting for wind turbines off the Gippsland into a low-carbon society that will require 2 degrees celcius by 2050. And because it’s a don’t need the government to tell the people coast, with the local community being engaged in consultation for cleaner, renewable energy. longer target, the issue is not in everybody’s what to do; they are going out there to foster possible locations. But can the world’s energy needs be met awareness. At CNN, we are saying that this a new generation of architects to put green While Australia has good availability of high-quality wind re- through renewable sources like wind, water transition from hydrocarbon to renewables in their blueprint in every project. sources, the first offshore wind farm would provide an opportunity and solar? How feasible and viable is a major is an essential ingredient to keeping global “Kuala Lumpur is part of this fantastic to develop a project at a size and scale that has not been seen in transition of world energy production systems warming under control. global movement that is also growing in on-shore projects in Australia. from hydrocarbon to renewables? What are It is a fantastic initiative comprising four Europe and the United States. I think the GE Renewable Energy successfully deployed a new record-setting the best technologies available? Can people documentaries, 26 reports from almost Global Energy Challenge is a good place 12MW offshore wind turbine in the Netherlands last month, with from the poorest of nations afford, or even every corner of the world and four events grid to be distributed but there are already to show it because at the core of it is about the turbine standing 260 meters tall, and sporting 107 meter-long access, to energy generated from renewables? to foster the debate between the younger innovations - off-grid solutions - where you energy efficiency.” blades, that is expected to go into commercial production after a These are the questions veteran journalist generation and energy leaders on how the can put solar panels and wind power in little There is no one-size-fits-all when it period of testing in 2021. John Defterios will seek to answer in CNN’s industry can make a shift to renewable villages. They then share that energy through comes to tackling climate change but any World’s wind turbine designs new program The Global Energy Challenge. energy.” that common storage in the village.” discussions on development funding and The proposed 250 wind turbine project, with an expected in- At CNN, we are saying that this transition According to Defterios, it took the CNN We have to be realistic about how fast the financial support, says Defterios, should vestment value of around $8 billion, would see some of the world’s from hydrocarbon to renewables is an essential team three months to develop the idea and transition can take place and are we investing aim to facilitate economies on a greener largest wind turbine designs deployed in Australia for the first time. ingredient to keeping global warming under format of the Global Energy Challenge. in the best technology? growth path: With proximity to Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, the project would control. Prior to Kuala Lumpur, the program led From India to China, Germany to South “We have to be realistic about how fast the have the ability to tap into the existing transmission infrastructure Launched on July 4th, the year-long Defterios to India where for two weeks, he Korea, the Global Energy Challenge travels transition can take place and are we investing that exists in the region, with an undersea cable planned for linking initiative will be dedicated to discovering examined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s to major continents of the world to examine in the best technology? For instance, if you the offshore turbines to the mainland. what is a realistic transition from hydrocarbon pledge to bring electricity to every Indian the state of energy innovation undertaken by need to use coal (to generate energy), do you Progress for the project comes as an AEMO report highlights to renewables - and if this transition happens home in a country with a population of 1.3 governments and the private sector. have the best technology on the coal plant the “unprecedented change” underway in the Victorian energy sys- at a pace that can help reduce global carbon billion - where 70 percent of the country’s In Malaysia, Defterios explored the role of to make sure it emits the least amount of tem, as the State’s generation base shifts from east to west, as large emissions fast enough. energy is still supplied by coal. natural gas as a ‘transition fuel’ - the bridge pollution? brown coal generators in the Latrobe Valley reach the end of their Based out of Abu Dhabi, Defterios is Energy not from hydrocarbons between coal and crude oil and renewables. I think institutions like the United operating life, and the development of renewable energy projects CNN Business Emerging Markets Editor “He has delivered on the promise. Now, He also went to the ground to highlight a Nations, the International Monetary Fund occurs in the west. and Anchor. He has over three decades of he just needs to make sure everybody can professionally-driven initiative dedicated and World Bank should be fostering these A large wind farm development that can utilize the existing experience covering the emerging economies, afford the electricity. Second is connectivity. to making buildings green: kind of discussions; if they are going in to a transmission network infrastructure in the Latrobe Valley would with a specialty in energy, geo-politics and Third is to make sure that the energy doesn’t The “Green Building Index is saying there country to help with its development, let’s be an attractive option for replacing Victoria’s ageing fleet with trade. come from hydrocarbons. is nothing wrong with building skyscrapers do it as green as possible.” new renewable energy generation capacity. AWANI Review had a chat with Defterios Some of it has to be connected to the power if they serve a purpose, fuel efficient and use (Source: awanireview.com) (Source: reneweconomy.com.au) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 6 INTERNATIONAL JULY 10, 2019 New political equations in Greece Japan feels need to come economically closer to China: expert Which one is Athens going to? GLOBALTIMES — Dependent on the US for military security for decades, Japan has been adjusting its security policy By Saeed Sobhani and migrant worker Sahzat Lukman and since 2010. How will Japan’s move toward an autonomous attacks on migrants — will, however, be security policy influence Asian stability? Lionel Fatton TEHRAN — Greece is one of the countries represented at the Europan parliament (Fatton), fellow at the Charhar Institute, assistant professor that continues to face a financial crisis. as it secured two seats in May. of international relations at Webster University Geneva The crisis has begun in Greece since But the far-right populist party, Greek and research collaborator at the Research Institute for 2007 and continues. The recent general Solution, has made it into parliament with the History of Global Arms Transfer at Tokyo-based Meiji election in Greece has led to the defeat 3.7% of the vote. Its leader, Kyriakos University, gave his views on the situation Japan faces in of the leftist government. As predicted, Velopoulos, was one of the party’s two an interview with Global Times (GT) reporter Xu Hailin despite the adoption of austerity policies members to be elected an MEP in May. during the Charhar Institute’s seminar on Japan’s security for 11 years, Greece is still one of the Velopoulos, a televangelist, advocating policy and US’ Asia policy recently in Beijing. most austerity-stricken countries in the for the death penalty and closed borders, What does Japan’s autonomous security policy mean EU. Although Greece was supposed to drew ridicule online for marketing letters to Asia, especially Northeast Asia, and how will it affect emerge from the bailout by 2012, and he said were written by Jesus Christ. regional security? step towards economic prosperity, The reactions A: It is not a full autonomy. Japan is just becoming a heavy debts prevented the realization EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker — whose bit more autonomous - it is a trend rather than a finality. of this process. The European Union, term expires on November 1 — said in a Regarding the stability of the region, it will depend the European Central Bank and the letter to Mitsotakis that “one of the proud- on how Japan communicates with other countries. The International Monetary Fund loaned est achievements” of the Commission he Japanese government regards itself as purely defensive. Greece a total of €289bn ($330bn) in presided over for the past five years “has But it is understandable that China, South Korea, and North three programs, in 2010, 2012 and 2015. been to help Greece turn the page of the Korea feel threatened by the development of Japanese Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister, crisis and create a future for itself.” military power because of the history and territorial tension Alexis Tspiras and other officials of the He added: “I have full confidence in between South Korea and Japan, as well as between China country, despite their party’s anti-aus- your personal capacity and in the capacity and Japan. terity approach, were not able to resist of the Greek people to open a new, brighter Therefore, whether this gradual move toward autonomy the pressure of countries like Germany chapter in the history of your country.” will be destabilizing depends to a great extent on Tokyo’s and France. It’s not without a reason And their verdict was clear, our society ing,” he said. “The bailout programmes Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre ability to communicate properly with Beijing, Seoul and that German Chancellor, Angela Merkl, wants us to go forward in unity,” said have ended, but austerity has not end- Moscovici also congratulated Mitsotakis Pyongyang to convey that the move is defensive. has become a despised figure in Greece. Mitsotakis later on Sunday. ed,” Polyzoidis added. “New Democracy on Twitter and wished him luck in “pursu- Japan doesn’t want to return to its past expansionist ways The continuation of austerity policies in “Everyone, with no one left behind. Most has been promising growth-orientated ing the job of getting the Greek economy and put feet on the continent to invade. The credibility of Greece raised the anger of Greek citizens of all, it wants growth, jobs and security policies, lowering taxes, lowering social back on its feet.” US commitment to defend Japan has been declining. So, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, for Greece to become strong again. Like security contributions. It all remains to He also thanked Tsipras, who he said, Japan must take more responsibility for its own defense, it prevented the economic growth inside we deserve. I would like to thank the Greek be seen how feasible these are because “has done a lot for his country and for but it doesn’t mean it will be aggressive.The problem is the country. An important point to be citizens for their trust. I will be a Prime the fiscal restrains remain.” Europe.” that the rightist Japanese government has not formulated taken into consideration about the Greece Minister for all Greek people.” According to official figures, 9,903,864 Greece’s neighbour, Turkey, also this narrative. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and crisis is whether this country is about to In the September 2015 election, Syriza people, including nearly 520,000 first- congratulated Mitsotakis with Foreign his regime have not accompanied their development of remain or exit from the Eurozone. won 149 seats and the ND 76.Sunday’s vote time voters, were registered to cast ballots. Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declaring military power with the right narrative to reassure other As Aljazeera reported, Greek Prime shows the popular discontent with Tsipras Greeks living abroad were not allowed to himself “confident that Turkish-Greek countries. So, if Japan cannot formulate this narrative, Minister Alexis Tsipras has conceded after four years of austerity brought by vote.At this point, the Greeks are really friendship and bilateral relations will fur- it can trigger instabilities in the region. defeat in a general election to Kyriakos reforms that he was forced to implement hopeless about passing the economy cri- ther strengthen during his (Mitsotakis) If Japan’s security policy is defensive, why is Abe Mitsotakis after exit polls indicated a clear in return for an international bailout of the sis, and the stop of austerity policies at leadership.” bent on revising Article 9 of the Japanese constitution victory for centre-right New Democracy country. Greece sank into a deep financial least in the near future. The truth is that The economic crisis continues that renounces war and prohibits Japan from maintain (ND) party.”The citizens have made their crisis in 2010 and emerged from the bailout there’s no prospective for Greece to pass in Europe armed forces for offensive reasons? choice. We fully respect the popular vote,” programmes only last August.A broadly the current crisis and upgrade its econo- In 2007, when the economic crisis broke A: Article 9 is respected and cherished by the Japanese. Tsipras said in his concession speech from unpopular name agreement with neigh- my to the level it stood before 2010. But out in Europe, we saw that the protests That’s why it’s very difficult for Abe to revise the constitution. central Athens, adding that he had phoned bouring North Macedonia, formerly known it looks like some Greek authorities are primarily began in countries such as Greece Abe wants to revise it because in the first place he has to Mitsotakis to congratulate him.”I want as Macedonia, further eroded Tsipras’ regarding the situation with unrealistic and Spain. In other words, protests be- fulfill the pledge of his own party. The Liberal Democratic to assure the Greek people that ... we will support, despite it ending a diplomatic optimism, promising their citizens that gan to take place in weak and vulnerable Party (LDP) of Japan was created in 1955. Constitutional protect the rights of working people with dispute spanning nearly three decades this belt-strengthening period is soon to countries in the Eurozone, and then it revision has been mentioned in the founding charter of a responsible but dynamic opposition. and earning him the co-nomination for be over. spread to other countries. However, at the party. It’s an objective of the party since 1955 and Abe I wish and hope that the return of New the Nobel Peace Prize this year. However, we can clearly see that that time, countries such as France and wants to realize that objective. Democracy to government will not lead ‘Difficult to see where this is Merkel’s plans for Greece was defeated, Germany were not involved in the crisis Abe is somehow a prime minister that is pretty hawkish, to vengeance ... particularly toward the heading’ and the Greeks don’t see any reasons to and there were few protests. Today, we but he is not the worst. There are some people in the LDP significant achievements to protect the Mitsotakis, 51, campaigned on the comply with her plan. On the other hand, see that protests have begun in France, who are even more on the right than Abe. He also wants to social majority and the workers.” promise of further reforms with a focus the Greek leaders couldn’t come forth which is considered the second largest satisfy them. Therefore, by revising the constitution and The conservative ND party was pro- on better economic, administrative and with an overall solution in this regard, economic power in the Eurozone and is including the existence of the Self-Defense Forces in the jected to win 39.8 percent of the vote, social efficiency. He promised more jobs, and their austerity policies are no longer one of the leaders of the European Union. constitution, Abe would gain greater internal party support. according to a partial count presented fewer taxes and generally, as he said it, accepted by the society. This failure has But the rallies didn’t stop in France and Abe reportedly wanted to mediate in the Korean Peninsula by a Greek Interior Ministry spokesper- “a bigger cake to share”. been highlighted as the result of several other countries were involved. Obviously, standoff. After the G20 summit, US President Donald Trump son.That would translate into 154 of the Panos Polyzoidis, a political analyst factors, including the intensification of curbing these protests is far more difficult visited South Korea and met with North Korean leader Kim Parliament’s 300 seats, allowing the op- in Athens, told Al Jazeera that an ND Euro crisis. It’s not without a reason that than in 2007, and the range of protests Jong-un in the Demilitarized Zone. What will be the changes position party to move into government win could signify “a return to normality the experts are warning about the Greeks’ is also wider than that time. Even if the to Japan’s role in the denuclearization issue? without the need to cooperate with others. ... [and] possibly the end of the crisis, in protests in 2019. yellow vests rallies stop in France, the A: Japan lags behind on the Korean Peninsula nuclear Its parliamentary clout could still rise, political terms”. Far-right not weakened opposition of the French citizens towards issue. It doesn’t have a place at the table. The only tool depending on how many smaller parties “That crisis has cost most political The ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn the EU leaders will remain strong. This Japan has used to get involved in the talks between the clear the three-percent hurdle to sit in forces a lot in influence. New Democ- party — which first entered the Hellenic opposition will show itself in the Euro- US and North Korea are economic sanctions. the Athens legislature.The early count racy is one of the parties that survived. parliament in 2010 — failed to secure the pean Parliamentary elections in 2019, or Japan is much more hawkish than the US in implementing puts Tsipras’ leftist Syriza party on 31.5 It also seems that Syriza is a party that 3% of the national vote necessary to gain in national and local elections in the EU UN sanctions on North Korea, and they thought that by percent.”Greek women and men, every- came to the limelight because of the seats. In the last parliamentary election member states. In any case, the EU has being tough with the sanctions, North Korea would agree where in the country, everywhere in the crisis and will probably also survive the in September 2015, it had commandeered faced the worst crisis over its popularity to talk. But it doesn’t seem to work. world where Hellenism lives and prospers. post-crisis period,” said Polyzoidis.”It’s 18 seats.The party — which is still on trial in its history, a crisis that the European Abe recently said he is willing to meet with Kim without Tonight the Greek people have spoken. very difficult to see where this is head- for the murder of musician Pavlos Fyssas authorities are incapable of solving. any preconditions. But before, he said there should be progress on the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s before he and Kim met.Now, Abe really wants to meet with Kim, Reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran provocative, vindictive: SIPRI Chief but he doesn’t have a lot of things to offer. Because those dictating the tempo of the issue are Trump and Kim. Even TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The director of But by remaining in the agreement they South Korean President Moon Jae-in doesn’t really dictate the Stockholm International Peace Re- would maintain the high-ground position the tempo. search Institute (SIPRI) described Wash- and, should the 2020 US elections produce The only thing Abe could offer North Korea would be to ington’s withdrawal from the JCPOA as a different administration, Iran (and the ease sanctions. To ease sanctions, the approval of the UN “provocative” and “vindictive”, calling on other signatories) would be well-placed to Security Council is needed, but Japan is not a permanent Tehran, however, to remain committed restore the full functioning of the JCPOA member. to the nuclear agreement despite the US with American cooperation. This is most After Trump’s recent trip to Japan and South Korea, lack of commitment. unlikely to happen if Iran’s actions take it will the alliance between these three countries be reinforced, July, 06, 2019 - 11:25 Politics Comments further and further from both the letter especially between South Korea and Japan? Reimposition of US Sanctions on Iran and the spirit of the JCPOA. A: The trilateral relationship is in a bad shape. The Provocative, Vindictive: SIPRI Chief US President Donald Trump has re- relationship between Japan and the US has weakened, “The situation is highly regrettable. The peatedly said that Iran “can’t have nuclear because Trump has put a lot of pressure on Japan to negotiate USA should certainly not have withdrawn weapons”. Iranian officials and experts a new free trade agreement. It’s not a trade war like the from an agreement freely arrived at, tech- argue that the US’s main aim is not to one the US launched against China. But still, Trump has nically sound, endorsed by a binding UN halt the country’s nuclear and military said he would impose 25 percent tariffs on Japanese car Security Council resolution and, until now, programs but to deprive it of nuclear imports to the US. It’s a big threat. fully implemented on the Iranian side. technology and know-how. What are The worst is between Japan and South Korea. This is the However, when I was a child I learned a your thoughts on this? biggest deterioration in bilateral relations since the end simple moral truth: two wrongs do not A: Quite obviously, if the US President of the Pacific War. Not only is there the “comfort women” make a right,” Dan Smith told Tasnim wants Iran not to have nuclear weapons, issue, but also the issue of forced labor. The South Korean in an interview. and surpass uranium stockpile limit set wrongs do not make a right. It is easy to his wish has already been fulfilled. There- court has ordered Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation and Dan Smith has a long record of research by JCPOA from July 7. It means that understand that US withdrawal from the fore, either he is misinformed or he has Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate, but Japan and publication on a wide range of con- Tehran will no longer be bound by its JCPOA is provocative and the reimposi- another motive. It is worth pointing out has refused because of the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations flict and peace issues such as nationalism, commitment to enrich uranium up to tion of sanctions vindictive but if Iran, that President Trump has always painted between Japan and the Republic of Korea that supposedly identity politics, armed conflicts, ethics 3.67 percent and will begin developing in turn, breaks the agreement, it loses. the JCPOA as his predecessor’s agreement solved this problem. Besides, there’s also the radar dispute of intervention, gender aspects of con- its Arak heavy water reactor based on Whatever the motivation behind Iran’s and he does seem intent on undoing what- last year when a South Korean warship allegedly locked flict and peacebuilding. In recent years, its pre-JCPOA plans. The West, Wash- step-by-step suspension of commitments ever President Obama had regarded as his its radar on a Japanese surveillance plane. his work has broadened to encompass ington in particular, has been seeking to within the JCPOA, the appearance is not administration’s achievements. But that Why does Japan talk less about the Indo-Pacific other contemporary issues such as the create the image that the move by Iran is good. Iran will lose support and sympathy is certainly not the whole story. Strategy and say it will consider the China-proposed Belt relationship between climate change and tantamount to a nuclear breakout. This if it continues on this path. US motivation is also strategic. It is and Road Initiative (BRI)? insecurity, peace and security issues in the is while Tehran insists that the steady Given the fact that the US sanctions possible that there is a US interest in re- A: Japan feels the need to come closer to China Middle East and global conflict trends. suspension of commitments is in line with have restricted Iran’s access to medical and stricting Iran from any and all access to economically, because Japan is also under pressure by Smith has served four years in the UN the country’s non-military objectives and health services, don’t you think that Iran nuclear technology but I would suggest the US on trade. By getting closer, both countries can Peacebuilding Fund Advisory group, two plans to reach scientific independence. has the right to return to the 20-percent that evidence indicates the US is thinking reinforce their position vis-à-vis the US. And to get closer of which (2010–2011) were as Chair. He What is your take on this? enrichment and produce radiopharma- on a larger scale. More broadly, the US to China, Japan needs to make concessions. has lived most of his adult life in the UK A:The situation is highly regretta- ceuticals? seeks to limit Iranian influence in the One was the agreement on joint investments in with a 10-year spell in Norway. He has ble. The USA should certainly not have A: It would still be preferable to act as region. Indeed, the fact that the JCPOA infrastructure for third countries reached during Abe’s traveled professionally to more than 60 withdrawn from an agreement freely ar- bound by the agreement. Recall that the does not limit Iran’s regional influence is visit to Beijing in October 2018, which can be seen as a first countries. rived at, technically sound, endorsed by a agreement was endorsed by the UN Secu- one of its critics’ major arguments against for Japan to participate in the BRI. Japan knows China The following is the full text of the binding UN Security Council resolution rity Council in a binding resolution. True, it. I see the withdrawal from the JCPOA does not like the “free and open” Indo-Pacific because it interview. and, until now, fully implemented on Iran faces great difficulties and the other and the reimposition of sanctions as being sounds like containment. So, Japan avoids mentioning it Iran has announced that it will begin the Iranian side. However, when I was a signatories have been less helpful than among the means used to further that in order not to offend China suspending more nuclear commitments child I learned a simple moral truth: two Iranian authorities hoped and expected. larger agenda. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 10, 2019 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7

INSTEX cannot satisfy all of Iran’s Trump’s way out of Iran lies out of bilateral issues

1 The approach is because of US regional allies such as the needs: Shireen Hunter UAE, Saudi Arabia and of course the Israeli regime who are dictat- By Javad Heirannia in its efforts to get sanctions relief are ing American foreign policy by money and influence. In his recent unlikely to succeed. interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump said that he is TEHRAN — Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a We are witnessing the last breaths of ready to negotiate with Iran without any preconditions and his only professor of political science at Georgetown JCPOA and its survival depends on Europe’s aim is to ban Iran from access to nuclear weapons. This has actually University, tells the Tehran Times that “By commitment to secure the sale of Iranian oil been the same reason previous administration had sat at the table for; its very structure, Instex cannot satisfy all of and Iran’s banking transactions. Can Europe yet Iran has always denied any will to obtain an atomic bomb, calling Iran’s needs, including its desire to sell oil and accomplish this task or does it practically it Haram, forbidden by Islam, so it has had no problem discussing access the revenues earned by its sale. But Iran’s accompany with the United States? measures to assure the world in that regard as it did in 2015 deal and economic needs go beyond mere sale of oil.” A: Given the characteristics of the in- has been approved by the IAEA for several times. “If Iran wants to develop economically, ternational banking and financial systems Four years after the deal has been signed by all parties, Iran is the it must secure foreign investment and up-to and Europe’s close economic and strategic only side practically abiding by its commitments and yet not benefit- date technology, especially in its oil industry,” relations with the US, despite some recent ting from it as it was supposed to. To Iran, it logically makes no sense Hunter says. disagreements, I doubt that Europe could to renegotiate a deal which was clinched after years of difficult talks, Following is the text of the interview: succeed in meeting Iran’s needs. for the same reasons and with the same sides and particularly with an As a consequence of the fact that Although INSTEX proposed to be actor which has simply left the deal for no reason. If Trump’s claim is Europe could not completely stand by its operational earlier, its utilization has been true and he only seeks to prevent Iran from a nuclear weapon, he simply commitments, Iran has taken the second postponed by Europe on various pretexts. needs to return to the JCPOA as soon as possible, before Iran begins step in suspending its commitments under Paying attention to the fact that it is just to leave the deal by the end of its 60-day ultimatum to European sides. the JCPOA. The reason for Iran’s action is to proposed to be used for humanitarian aims, Yet, based on words by Trump and other White House officials, to profit from the benefits of the JCPOA. Can edness of European economies with that of to return to JCPOA. Can it be true? can it meet the needs of Iran? Washington and its regional allies, a good deal is one which contains Europe stand to its JCPOA commitments? America, European business are unwilling A: It would be very good if President A: By its very structure, Instex cannot Iran’s missile capabilities. And that’s why the recent incident is a blow to A: It was clear from the beginning that if to risk losing American markets by trading Macron could convince Donald Trump to satisfy all of Iran’s needs, including its desire all Trump’s dreams of deal with Iran. Violation into Iran’s airspace with the United States did not remove its sanctions with Iran. Also, it is very difficult to circum- return to JCPOA. However, I doubt that to sell oil and access the revenues earned by spy drone escorted by another aircraft proved to the Iranians and world and objections to trade with Iran, the Europe- vent the international banking mechanisms. the US would be convinced by France its sale. But Iran’s economic needs go beyond that how crucial Tehran’s missile program is to its security, therefore an states would not be able to do much. The Again, American banks and dollar are very unless Macron comes up with a formu- mere sale of oil. If Iran wants to develop non-negotiable. Ayatollah Khamenei has reiterated several times that reasons for this are obvious. Europe has a free influential within this banking system. In la involving some mutual concessions economically, it must secure foreign invest- Tehran will not negotiate over ‘its missile program and defense might’ market economy and therefore, governments short, it is not so much that Europe does not by both US and Iran, including Iran’s ment and up-to date technology, especially and will not negotiate with ‘this man’ referring to Donald Trump. And do not interfere in the economic activities of want to live up to its commitments. Rather agreement to talk to America if at least in its oil industry. This is impossible as long now this resolve is reinforced by recent developments and even slightest companies and businesses. The latter make the fact is that it cannot even if it wanted to. some sanctions are reduced. Otherwise, i as sanctions are in place and Instex cannot hopes of the Americans for talks over missiles are totally obliterated now. their decisions based on the loss and profits According to some reports, France has doubt that Macron could be successful. In change the situation. At best, Instex is an On the eve of election campaigns and all the debates and competi- calculations. In view of the inter-connect- decided to try to conceive the United States general, Iran’s efforts to bypass America economic palliative or a band aid. tions, given the domestic politics challenges Trump is already facing, he desperately needs an achievement in foreign policy. Once his agen- da was to undermine anything that could be considered as Obama’s achievement or legacy in foreign policy; but now he has no choice but to provide a replacement for what he has rejected so harshly. With naïve Why force Iran to go Nuclear when there’s a peaceful option? approaches and a divided foreign policy team, Trump administration has failed in all plans it has launched towards North Korea, Venezuela, 1 All these accusations against a country that has about! Let me say that if Iranian leaders did not worry Yes, war with Iran would be a catastrophe for the United China, Russia and of course Iran. With election debates around the not invaded a single country in over a hundred years but about Iran’s security and integrity under these hostile States, as well as for the Middle East and especially for Iran. corner, one shared stance from all Trump rivals is blaming him for was itself invaded by the allied forces during WWII and conditions, they would be irresponsible and would have But there is a costless option, in lives and treasure, which tearing the JCPOA and stepping out of the deal. Iran has also said that by Iraq in 1980 with Western and Arab support, Iran has no business in office. Should they trust the word of the would furthermore guarantee that Iran never acquires nu- any proposals for negotiations can only be possible to consider after suffered chemical weapon attacks, had a passenger plane United States? Absolutely not, after some of America’s clear weapons. Declare the Middle East and North Africa the US has returned back to the deal and has fulfilled its commitments on a scheduled flight from Tehran to Dubai shot down in stands listed above and after the United States unilater- a nuclear-free zone with the most obtrusive inspections according to the deal. Therefore, if Donald Trump seeks reelection, he 1988 (with the United States claiming it had mistaken the ally withdrew from a UN Security Council ratified treaty under the auspices of the United Nations. Before you laugh, surely needs this achievement and Iran can be a good choice, only and Airbus plane for a Tomcat fighter plane, a near impossi- (JCPOA), a treaty it had signed along with five other Iran proposed this a number of years ago and the idea was only if he realizes the appropriate path he needs to take. bility, especially with American-Saudi AWACs in the air countries even though Iran adhered to its commitments apparently endorsed by Arab countries. But there is fly in the Returning to the JCPOA is a step many democratic candidates every second tracking all planes and ships in the region under the treaty. Iran’s mistake is readily apparent. It ointment — Israel. The Israelis said no and the United States are already promising and seems to be the precondition for any and U.S. pilots even knowing the voice of every Iranian air should have already acquired a few nuclear warheads. followed Israeli wishes and kept this from happening. This further steps either by Trump or any successor. If Trump wants to force pilot) and has faced economic sanctions for 40 years. So if we agree that nuclear proliferation in the Middle fact should be blazed across the skies. Why are we letting win the Iran card, he needs to go the same way Barack Obama once It was because of its invasion by Iraq and American hostility East should be avoided, what are the options for the United Israel determine the security of the Middle East and of the began to step on in his early months at the White House, but failed that Iran nurtured Hezbollah, a party that only the United States? The worst option is war with Iran. Let me briefly spell world? If Israel argues that it needs nuclear warheads for to continue due to miscalculations of his administration. Soon after States and its allies consider terrorist, supports the regime it out. The only way that the United States could be assured defense, it has the biggest nuclear power, the United States coming to power as 44th president of the United States, Barack of al-Assad because Syria was the only country to support that Iran was not developing warheads would be to occupy of America, 100 percent in its corner. Obama realized that any regime change policy or economic sanctions Iran after Saddam Hussein’s invasion and, only after all Iran and monitor all activities in the country. The U.S. would The U.S. can guarantee that any conventional attack on against Iran are doomed to failure, as they had all failed for nearly this, Iran started a nuclear enrichment program. need upward of 500,000 boots on the ground and for a Israel would be met by a U.S. strike (the U.S. could even three decades. According to those familiar with the content of the Iran is a country that has felt threatened for at least long time to conquer and control a country the size of Iran. maintain a large base in Israel for this purpose) and a nuclear letter and based on what Ayatollah Khamenei has mentioned in a the last 40 or so years. It is surrounded by a number of Why for a long time? Because such an unwarranted action attack would unleash the U.S. arsenal. Or is the actual reason couple of occasions, Barack Obama had written a humble letter rec- hostile Arab countries and a nuclear-armed Israel. The would bring out Iranian nationalism as never before. The for Israel wanting to keep its more than 200 warheads be- ognizing the Islamic Republic’s integrity and independence and the United States, a country about 6,000 miles away that regime would receive widespread support from Iranians, cause it does not trust the word of the United States? Israel peaceful nuclear rights. The letters were supposed to lead to an end has imposed sanctions, supports its threatening Arab inside and outside of Iran. does not trust the U.S. but Iran should! And Israel should to aggressions and probably an improvement of relations between neighbors and Israel, supplies Israel, Saudi Arabia and In such a war, there would be untold American casualties have nuclear warheads but Iran shouldn’t! the two countries, IF Barack Obama was not deceived by the greedy the United Arab Emirates with the most sophisticated in Iran as well as all over the Middle East. The war, depending The world should focus on this perfect solution before perspective of regime change due to 2009 post-election unrests. radar systems, missiles, airplanes and other weaponry on its duration, could cost the United States upward of $5 our eyes and the United States should stop threatening the As Chair of US House Armed Services Adam Smith admitted last and support, has dozens of military bases and thousands trillion and limit America’s ability to respond to any other annihilation of Iran or any other nation. A nuclear-free weekend, Maximum Pressure policy will not bring Iran to its knees and of troops in the region, conducts an untold number of hotspot for years to come. But worst of all, a war today would Middle East is the solution. Iran would sign up. All that will fail as all the so-called crippling sanctions by Trump’s predecessors covert operations in Iran’s neighborhood, threatens Iran guarantee Iran developing a nuclear arsenal no matter what is left to do is to persuade Israel and the United States of through last 40 years did fail to defeat the Islamic Republic. Rapproche- with annihilation and tells Iran it has nothing to worry it takes. Just recall the fallout from the Treaty of Versailles! America to do the same. ment with Iran can be a feasible scenario if he acknowledges the fact that Iran is a regional power and any further escalation of tensions and conflicts can bear no fruit other than a full-fledged war with disastrous consequences for the whole world. Given the recent tensions and de- Assassination of my father Sheikh Zakzaky is almost done velopments in the region, even a surgical attack or limited strike by the 1 Most disturbing of these issues is the fact that parents through deliberate negligence towards their United States or its allies will be responded to at least the same level he is beginning to show signs that are very similar to what health, back then I did not know the extent of it and and the retaliations would snowball into a huge catastrophe; all because happened before he had a stroke in January 2018. Where I am telling you. The fact that they have managed to both sides need to save face and prevent discreditation by inaction. So, as in the past he had only been suffering intermittent survive this long is a miracle. in order to find a ground for any possible rapprochement, Trump needs attacks of chronic pain, it has now become virtually a Based on all that I have heard from medical experts over to, first, return to the JCPOA to show, not only Iran, but also the whole daily occurrence. the past week, it is with a heavy heart that I decide to say world, that he can be a rational actor and a negotiable side; second, find Although I do not wish to give in to despair, at this this, but the time frame during which anything can be done something outside the bilateral issues to work with Iran indirectly. This current point I feel that there is little left that I can do to save their health has virtually run out. There is also at can be cooperation with Iran to find out a way for Saudi Arabia and UAE to try to save them, as every single attempt we have this time nothing that I can cling what little hope I have left to get out of Yemen without losing more face. In this way he can sell it currently made has either been deliberately frustrated on. This has always been an assassination in progress, and to public opinion as resolution of the most tragic humanitarian crisis or simply ignored. Years ago I stated that it appears it is almost done. And the assassins are clearly determined of the century and also supporting its allies out of calamity. This can that there is a deliberate attempt to assassinate my to see it through. also address efforts at the Congress to prevent the US from any kind of involvement in Yemen War.

First Announcement 1398.2224 نوبت اول N.I.S.O.C European states can inject significant N.I.S.O.C NATIONAL IRANIAN SOUTH OILFIELDS COMPANY AHVAZ-IRAN amount of export credit into INSTEX: expert TENDER NO. : 02-30-9350012 National Iranian South Oilfields Company(NISOC) intends to purchase the following goods By Javad Heirannia A: Neither France nor any other country is likely able to restore status TEHRAN — Ali Vaez, director of the Iran quo ante. But they might be able to ITEMS Material Description Quantity program for International Crisis Group facilitate discussions between Iran and says that “European states have almost the US. The problem is that President 60 -PARTS FOR “ FISHER” CONTROL VALVE 1209 NO no influence on the risk calculus of their Trump does seem interested neither private sector and their financial sector is in multilateral frameworks nor in in -PARTS FOR “ FISHER” BUTTERFLY CONTROL VALVE deeply intertwined with the US economy.” sharing the credit with others. At best, -PARTS FOR “ FISHER” ACTUATOR CONTROL VALVE “But they can inject significant amount mediators can try to deescalate ten- of export credit into INSTEX to lift it off sions and buy more time in the hope Vendors who intend to participate in aforesaid tenders are requested to send their "intention To Participate" letter via the ground and turn it into a meaningful that cooler heads prevail. channel. More EU states can also join in or We are witnessing the last breaths fax to the following number along with their resume according to Qualitative Assessment Form no. 1, available at: establish similar mechanisms,” Dr.Vaez from the effects of US sanctions. This of JCPOA and its survival depends on WWW.nisoc.ir , not later than 14 days after the second announcement, otherwise, their requests for participation in the tells the Tehran Times. is mostly because the European states Europe’s commitment to secure the sale .tender will be disregarded Following is the full text of the inter- have almost no influence on the risk of Iranian oil and Iran’s banking transac- The applicants should have relevant background in supplying the required goods and capability to provide and submit view: calculus of their private sector and their tions. Can Europe accomplish this task .a bid bond of 9,245 EURO or 241,925,159 RIAL, in favor of NISOC As a consequence of the fact that financial sector is deeply intertwined or does it practically accompany with the Tender documents including the materials thorough technical specifications and Qualitative Assessment Forms can be Europe could not completely stand by with the US economy. But they can in- United States? accessed via: WWW.nisoc.ir-material procurement management tab its commitments, Iran has taken the sec- ject significant amount of export credit A: It’d be a mistake to put all of the NO ADVANCE PAYMENT WILL BE PAID ond step in suspending its commitments into INSTEX to lift it off the ground and burden on Europe. China on its own under the JCPOA. The reason for Iran’s turn it into a meaningful channel. More can make or break Trump’s maximum FOREIGN PURCHASING DEPT action is to profit from the benefits of the EU states can also join in or establish pressure policy. If China were to restore Kouy-e-Fadaeian Islam (New Site), Ahvaz, Iran JCPOA. Can Europe stand to its JCPOA similar mechanisms. its own imports to the 2017-2018 levels, Bldg. No. 104 commitments? According to some reports, France the boost would be sufficient for Iran to Tel/FAX No.: 061 3445 7437 A: There is a limit to how far Europe has decided to try to conceive the United keep its economy afloat until the next US Public Relations www.shana.ir www.nisoc.ir http://iets.mporg.ir تهران تایمز نوبت اول 19/4/98نوبت دوم can go in shielding the Iranian economy States to return to JCPOA. Can it be true? presidential elections. 13 98/4/22

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On Canada’s the Earth, astronauts have revealed. have picked up any possible germs as soon Ellesmere Island, Teardrop Glacier extended its frozen tongue When the three astronauts flew to the Moon as they climbed back in – noted that all of across the landscape and swallowed a small tuft of moss. and back, exactly 50 years ago this month, that hard work could have been undone as Since 1850, the plant lay frozen under a 100-foot-thick slab NASA worked hard to ensure that no bugs soon as they landed back down on Earth. of ice as humans discovered antibiotics, visited the moon and were brought back from the lunar surface. “Look at it this way,” he said. “Suppose burned 2 trillion tons of fossil fuels. All three of the Apollo 11 crew were put into there were germs on the moon. There are Thanks to this latest exploit, evolutionary biologist Catherine special clothes, scrubbed down and taken to germs on the moon, we come back, the La Farge arrived centuries later at Teardrop’s melting edge to find a quarantine facility where they lived until command module is full of lunar germs. the tuft of the species Aulacomnium turgidum finally free from scientists could be sure the Earth would not The command module lands in the Pacific its icy entombment. The moss was faded and torn but sported a be contaminated. Ocean, and what do they do? Open the hatch. verdant hue - a possible sign of life. But interviews from a new documentary You got to open the hatch! All the damn Climate change stories often highlight the teetering fragility – filmed by PBS and revealed by Space.com germs come out!” of Earth’s ecological system. The picture grew even more dire – show that the plan to keep Earth could Buzz Aldrin made a similar point as footage when a United Nations report said that 1 million of our planet’s easily have failed, and that space bugs could showed the astronauts being disinfected as plant and animal species face the specter of extinction. have got into the Earth’s atmosphere despite they were on a raft next to the spacecraft But for a few exceptional species, thawing ice caps and permafrost NASA’s best efforts. they’d splashed down to Earth on. are starting to reveal another narrative - one of astonishing The astronauts noted that NASA did not He said that the rescuers had cleaned him biological resilience. think there would be anything alive on the down with a rag – and then thrown that same Researchers in a warming Arctic are discovering organisms, Moon that could be brought back down to rag straight into the water. frozen and presumed dead for millennia, that can bear life anew. the Earth. But the precautions were taken “It takes all those germs to the bottom of These ice age zombies range from simple bacteria to multicellular in case there were. the ocean,” he says in the interview, laughing. animals, and their endurance is prompting scientists to revise However, astronaut Michael Collins – “I wonder if they’d survive down there.” their understanding of what it means to survive. who stayed in the command module during (Source: The Independent) “You wouldn’t assume that anything buried for hundreds of years would be viable,” said La Farge, who researches mosses at the University of Alberta. In 2009, her team was scouring Teardrop’s margin to collect ‘Titans in a jar› could answer key questions ahead of NASA’s space exploration blackened plant matter spit out by the shrinking glacier. Their NASA announced in late June that its «Dragonfly» mission can learn about what kind of chemical structures could are in their solid form -- or, as we would call them on goal was to document the vegetation that long ago formed the would launch toward Saturn›s largest moon in 2026, form on the Titan›s surface. The knowledge on these Earth, minerals,» Runcevski explained. base of the island’s ecosystem. expecting to arrive in 2034. The goal of the mission is structures can ultimately help assess the possibility of «We are interested in the chemical composition and “The material had always been considered dead. But by seeing to use a rotorcraft to visit dozens of promising locations life on Titan -- whether in the past, present or future. crystal structure of these organic minerals, because it is green tissue, “I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty unusual’,” La Farge on Titan to investigate the chemistry, atmospheric and Scientists have long considered Titan to be very similar believed that minerals played a key role in the origins of said about the centuries-old moss tufts she found. surface properties that could lead to life. to pre-biotic Earth, even though it is a frigid world much life on Earth,» he said. «Hence, our research may help She brought dozens of these curious samples back to Edmonton, SMU was awarded a $195,000 grant, also in June, to farther from the sun than our planet. Titan is the only assess these possibilities for strange «methanogenic» lavishing them with nutrient-rich soils in a bright, warm laboratory. reproduce what is happening on Titan in a laboratory moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere like Titanean life.» Almost a third of the samples burst forth with new shoots and setting. The project, funded by the Houston-based Welch Earth, and is also the only world other than Earth to have Runcevski added that any information that they get leaves. Foundation, will be led by Tom Runcevski, an assistant standing bodies of liquids, including lakes, rivers and about the structure of Titan›s upper layer crust, which “We were pretty blown away,” La Farge said. The moss showed professor of chemistry in SMU›s Dedman College of seas, on its surface. In addition, NASA scientists believe is made of organic minerals, could prove very useful to few ill effects of its multi-centennial deep-freeze. Humanities and Sciences. SMU graduate student Christina Titan may have a subsurface ocean of water. NASA›s Dragonfly mission. It’s not easy to survive being frozen solid. Jagged ice crystals can McConville was also awarded a fellowship by the Texas «Titan is a hostile place, with lakes and seas of liquid In order to create these «Titans in a jar» at SMU, shred cell membranes and other vital biological machinery. Many Space Grant Consortium to help with the project. methane, and rains and storms of methane. The storms Runcevski said they will use information about the plants and animals simply succumb to the cold at winter’s onset, Before the rotorcraft lands on Titan, chemists from carry organic molecules produced in the atmosphere to conditions on Titan that were obtained during the mission willing their seeds or eggs to spawn a new generation come spring. SMU will be recreating the conditions on Titan in multiple the surface, and at the surface conditions, only methane, Cassini-Huygens, which ended two years ago. Mosses have forged a tougher path. They desiccate when glass cylinders -- each the size of a needle top -- so they ethane and propane are liquids. All other organic molecules (Source: Science Daily) temperatures plummet, sidestepping the potential hazard of ice forming in their tissues. And if parts of the plant do sustain damage, certain cells can divide and differentiate into all the various tissue types that comprise a complete moss, similar to Highest-energy photons ever detected Massive stars grow same way as light stars, stem cells in human embryos. have been traced to an enigmatic source just bigger Thanks to these adaptations, mosses are more likely than other plants to survive long-term freezing, said Peter Convey, an ecologist with the British Antarctic Survey. On the heels of La Farge’s Canadian moss revival, Convey’s team announced it had awakened a 1,500-year-old moss buried more than three feet underground in the Antarctic permafrost. “The permafrost environment is very stable,” said Convey, noting that the perennially frozen soil can insulate the moss from surface-level stresses, such as annual freeze-thaw cycles or DNA-damaging radiation. The regrowth of centuries-old mosses suggests that glaciers and permafrost are not merely graveyards for multicellular life, but they could instead help organisms withstand ice ages. And as human-caused warming peels away ice cover in the Arctic and Antarctic, whoever makes it out of the ice alive is poised to dominate the budding polar ecosystems. Convey explained that as melting ice exposes land surfaces, plants generally colonize the new terrain from “somewhere else” It may have exploded nearly a thousand observations of a supernova. In 1054 CE the Astronomers obtained the first detailed ALMA observations captured a rotating via spores carried long distances by the wind. Such far-flung years ago, but the Crab Nebula is still spitting exploding star, which was bright enough face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the disk around G353 with a radius eight dispersal is slow, often taking decades. out radiation at incredibly high energies. to be seen during the day, was observed growth of a massive baby star. They found times larger than the orbit of Neptune. But “when something can survive in situ,” said Convey of the In fact, astronomers have detected record- and recorded by Chinese astronomers. that it shares many common features This sounds huge, but it is one of the moss his team discovered, “that really accelerates the recolonization breakingly energetic photons coming from Astronomers have also hypothesized with lighter baby stars. This implies smallest disks yet found around a massive process.” These mosses can paint a lifeless landscape green almost the object, clocking in at up to 450 trillion that the object acts as a particle accelerator that the process of star formation is the protostar. ALMA also found that the disk overnight, paving the way for other organisms to arrive and electron volts. vastly more powerful than anything we can same, regardless of the final mass of the is surrounded by an envelope of gas three establish. While the elderly mosses discovered by La Farge and Previously, the highest energy photon build on Earth. These newly discovered resulting star. This finding paves the way times larger than the disk. Convey are remarkable, the clique of ice age survivors extends ever detected was just 75 trillion electron gamma ray photons could be proof of that. for a more complete understanding of “We measured the gas infall rate from well beyond this one group of plants. volts, or teraelectronvolts (TeV). This marks Astronomers believe that, as the pulsar star formation. the outer envelope to the inner disk,” Tatiana Vishnivetskaya has studied ancient microbes long the first time astronomers have detected spins at its tremendous rate of once every 33 A protostar, a baby star still in the process says Motogi. “This helps us to estimate enough to make the extreme feel routine. A microbiologist at such high energy photons - known as gamma milliseconds, it emits a stellar wind of charged of forming, is fed by a surrounding disk of the age of the baby star. Surprisingly the University of Tennessee, Vishnivetskaya drills deep into the rays - over 100 TeV. particles, including electrons accelerated up gas falling towards the center. The details it is only 3000 years old, the youngest Siberian permafrost to map the web of single-celled organisms The detection was made at ASgamma, a to the petaelectronvolt (PeV) range - that’s of the process, such as why stars form with among known massive protostars. We that flourished ice ages ago. facility jointly run by China and Japan in Tibet. one thousand trillion electron volts. a wide range of masses, are still unclear. are witnessing the earliest phase of the She has coaxed million-year-old bacteria back to life on a In 2014, it was upgraded to add underground According to the new research, these Low mass stars are being formed in the growth of a giant star.” petri dish. They look “very similar to bacteria you can find in water Cherenkov muon detectors; since then, electrons could be interacting with radiation vicinity of the Solar System, allowing Interestingly, the disk is not uniform; cold environments [today],” she said. they have made 24 gamma ray detections from the cosmic microwave background astronomers to see the process up-close. the south-eastern side of the disk is brighter But last year, Vishnivetskaya’s team announced an “accidental between 100 and 450 TeV. (CMB), the radiation left over from the On the other hand, massive protostars are than other parts. This is the first time finding” - one with a brain and nervous system - that shattered For context, particles from the Sun are Big Bang that permeates the Universe. In rare, and even the nearest are located quite astronomers have seen an asymmetric scientists’ understanding of extreme endurance. usually below 1 billion electronvolts, or GeV. turn, PeV electrons could accelerate CMB far away from us. disk around a massive protostar. The team As usual, the researchers were seeking singled-celled organisms, “This is the very first but a great step photons up to the TeV range, sending them Kazuhito Motogi, an assistant professor also found that the disk is highly unstable the only life-forms thought to be viable after millennia locked in forward,” said physicist Jing Huang of the careening out across the Universe. at Yamaguchi University, Japan, and his and going to fragment. The uneven disk the permafrost. They placed the frozen material on petri dishes Chinese Academy of Sciences. “It proves The terrestrial particle accelerator team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/ might be caused by this instability. These in their room-temperature lab and noticed something strange. that our techniques worked well, and called the Tevatron had a collision energy submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a features are often seen around smaller Hulking among the puny bacteria and amoebae were long, gamma rays with energies up to a few of up to 1 TeV (the LHC reaches 14 TeV). massive protostar called G353.273+0.641 protostars, suggesting that the essential segmented worms complete with a head at one end and anus at hundred TeV really exist.” So the unofficial name for a PeV-range (hereafter G353). Located 5500 light-years physical processes are the same in low-mass the other - nematodes. When traced back to their source, these accelerator is “PeVatron”. away in the constellation Scorpius, G353 and high-mass star formation. “Of course we were surprised and very excited,” Vishnivetskaya gamma rays seem to point directly to the When cosmic gamma rays get to Earth has a mass 10 times larger than the Sun, and “Previous studies had implied that the said. Clocking in at a half-millimeter long, the nematodes that Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant 6,500 and collide with the atmosphere, they create is still growing. It is a unique target among formation process might be different for wriggled back to life were the most complex creatures Vishnivetskaya light-years away, with the pulsing remains a shower of harmless particles. It’s these massive protostars because we can see its stars of different masses,” says Motogi. - or anyone else - had ever revived after a lengthy deep freeze. of a dead star in its center - the Crab Pulsar. particles that the muon detector picks up; gaseous disk from straight above. ALMA “Our new observations show the similarity. She estimated one nematode to be 41,000 years old - by far the This object is one of the most famous by analysing this particle shower, physicists has revealed detailed views of several other This is an important step to understand oldest living animal ever discovered. This very worm dwelled in dead stars in the Milky Way, because it was can figure out what sort of photon caused massive infant stars, however, most of them how massive protostars gain mass from the soil beneath Neanderthals’ feet and had lived to meet modern- the first in which a supernova remnant - it, and how much energy it carried. are in edge-on configurations, making it the surroundings.” day humans in Vishnivetskaya’s high-tech laboratory. the nebula itself - was traced to historical (Source: sciencealert.com) difficult to see the inner regions of the disks. (Source: Science Daily) Experts suggested that nematodes are well-equipped to endure millennia locked in permafrost. “These buggers survive just about everything,” said Gaetan Borgonie, a nematode researcher at Extreme Life Isyensya in Insecticides that threaten bees also harm damselflies, study finds Gentbrugge, Belgium, who was not involved in Vishnivetskaya’s New research suggests damselflies are being harmed by being negatively affected, including damselflies -- insects test ditches dug outdoors. Exposed caged insects ate less study.He said nematodes are ubiquitous across Earth’s diverse thiacloprid, a common neonicotinoid insecticide used by that look like dragonflies but with slimmer bodies. The and were less active. The insecticide also slowed the growth habitats. Borgonie has found teeming communities of nematodes farmers to kill aphids and whiteflies. new research suggests any insects that eat the nectar and rates of the caged damselflies. two miles below Earth’s surface, in South African mine shafts When researchers first began testing the efficacy and collect the pollen of sprayed crops could be negatively Free-roaming insects also were harmed. Fewer exposed with scant oxygen and scalding heat. safety of neonicotinoids, insecticides synthetically derived affected by neonicotinoids. larvae developed into adults, or emerged. The observations When environmental conditions deteriorate, some nematode from nicotine, they determined the chemicals only harmed Most investigations of neonicotinoids rely on simulated suggest the insecticide slows the damselflies’ reproductive rates. species can hunker down into a state of suspended animation insects that actually ate the sprayed crops. Thus, only the conditions inside laboratories. Researchers in the Netherlands Researchers determined insects that were left to forage called the dauer stage - dauer means duration in German - in targeted pests would be killed. wanted to test the effects of thiacloprid in fields. for their own food were more negatively impacted by the which they forestall feeding and grow a protective coating that But over the last decade, dozens have studies have shown “The impact of this substance on insects under natural insecticides than damselflies that were fed. shields them from extreme conditions. this assumption to be false and identified neonicotinoid conditions was as yet unknown,” Henrik Barmentlo, a doctoral “This shows the importance of field realism,” Barmentlo Vishnivetskaya is not sure whether the nematodes her team exposure as the primary driver of colony collapse disorder student at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental said. “In the lab, the insects receive high-quality food, but in pulled from the permafrost passed the epochs in dauer stage. and the decline of honey bees all over the world. Sciences in the Netherlands, said in a news release. a natural situation this is not always available. As a result, the But she speculated that nematodes could theoretically survive The latest study, published this week in the Journal Scientists exposed blue-tailed damselflies, both caged susceptibility to insecticides in nature can be much higher.” indefinitely if frozen stably. of Applied Ecology, suggests other bystanders are also and free-flying, to realistic concentrations of thiacloprid in (Source: UPI) (Source: Washington Post) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 10 HERITAGE & TOURISM JULY 10, 2019

Kebab festival to bring Is Iran safe foodies, meat eaters together

TOURISM TEHRAN — Tens of chefs will show off skills deskat a major kebab festival, which is scheduled to be held on August 15 and 16 in Golpayegan, a central Iranian for Americans to visit? city famous for its tasty kebabs. The skillfulness of cooking kebabs in Golpayegan has been 1 “People in Iran are very curi- “Demand for Iran has been a real up registered on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list, ous about visitors from a culture that and down situation,” Moore said. “Four CHTN reported. is off-limits to them. They understand years ago it was at a high point. Then we that American visitors do not reflect the ran into problems in 2017 when Trump way America is portrayed to them by announced the travel ban on Muslims. their government,” she added. Some people cancelled travel plans to Janet Moore, owner of Distant Hori- Iran because they feared Iran would stop zons, which has offered customized tours issuing visas or that they would be met to Iran for over 20 years, says “We’re used with antagonism.” to getting questions on politics and safety, Skift concludes that despite setbacks, but this time frame seems more serious the tour operators are optimistic about than what we’ve been through before.” long-term growth in tourism to Iran, “People are worried about the rhetoric which in recent years has stepped up from (President) Trump and (national efforts to increase international visitation security advisor John) Bolton. They don’t and has the stated goal of attracting 20 want to be anywhere where there’s mil- million annual visitors by 2025. itary activity.” Last December, Ashely Duncan, an With an Iran tour scheduled for American fashion psychologist who ac- September, Moore said she’s uncertain cidentally landed in Iran, announced whether the trip will actually go forward. that her perception of the country was “People have really started to get “totally different” from what mainstream Many travelers to Iran have very likely eaten kebabs due to the skittish,” she said. “We’re not getting Western media outlets portray. ubiquity of kababis, or kebab houses in every corner of the country. new sign-ups and most of our American Duncan told IRNA in an interview that Kabab-e koobideh, which is very popular, is minced lamb or travelers have pulled out and are making “As an American, I did have a pleasant beef, marinated in onion juices, spices and saffron. The meat alternative plans. While people feel Iran experience. I did not allow the politics is molded onto flat iron skewers, cooked over a fiery charcoal is probably still safe, they also feel it’s and the diplomatic relationship to taint barbecue and served on top a mass of rice with a dollop of butter. something they can do later when things People visit the 17th-century Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, one of the masterpieces my view of Iran’s people.” The side dishes make it magic. Raw onion, charred tomato, calm down.” of Iranian architecture in Isfahan. Iran hosts some of the world’s oldest beetroot and even kiwi fruit must be eaten with the kebab to Reverting to foreign arrivals, Skift G Adventures, which offers a 14-day she noted that bookings from non-U.S. cultural monuments including bazaars, balance the meal, according to ancient Persian philosophy. reports that Journeys International has Iran itinerary, says that bookings among travelers increased by about that same museums, mosques, bridges, bathhouses, According to CNN, Iranian cooking can be seen as a metaphor seen interest fall off sharply among its American travelers has fallen by 14 per- amount. madrasas, gardens, rich natural, rural for the country itself: It’s tart, sweet, fragrant and vastly complex. clientele, which is primarily from the cent this year, said communications di- “Global visitor interest in Iran seems landscapes as well as 22 UNESCO World “It’s one of the world’s oldest, yet largely obscure, culinary land- U.S., during the past month. rector Kim McCabe. At the same time, to be modestly growing,” Kim said. Heritage sites. scapes, with roots dating back to the Persian Empire.”

Sheki: Azerbaijan’s No major harm to Khuzestan historical sites by quake Silk Road city now a HERITAGE TEHRAN — No serious damage has [all over the region] so far, however, no [serious] damage to deskbeen reported to museums and cultural its monuments and historical objects has been reported,” World Heritage site heritage sites across Iran’s Khuzestan province hit by a Ahmadreza Hosseini said. medium-sized quake on Monday, according to the Cultural Masjed Soleiman was the site of the first oil well in Iran Before Azerbaijan was famous for oil, it was a land of silk and spices. Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization. and the Middle East. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, bordered by the “Based on probes and field visits, no serious damage Iran is located on major seismic faults and experiences Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, it was an impor- to museums, historical relics and monuments has been one earthquake per day on average. In 2003, a magnitude tant thoroughfare on the Silk Road, the ancient web of trade reported from an earthquake that today jolted Masjed 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southern routes linking East and West. Soleiman [an ancient city in southwestern Khuzestan Iran, killing 26,000 people. By the 19th century, Sheki, on the Silk Road path through north- province],”CHTN quoted a provincial tourism official as The U.S. Geological Survey said Monday’s quake was west Azerbaijan, was an international center for silk production. saying on Monday. centered 28 kilometers (17 miles) southeast of Masjed Today, it’s one of Azerbaijan’s most picturesque towns, filled According to the data published on Iranian Seismo- Soleiman, and at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). At with cobbled streets and medieval architecture: a fresh, bucolic logical Center (IRSC), affiliated to Tehran University, the least five aftershocks were recorded, and tremors were retreat from the more arid south. first quake struck Masjed Soleiman at about 11:30 a.m. felt as far away as Kuwait. It’s largely been off most tourists’ radar, but that could be set at the depth of 17 kilometers beneath the earth’s surface. Khuzestan province is home to three UNESCO World to change: In July 2019, its historic center and Khan Palace were Four other quakes measuring 3-4.7 on the Richter scale Heritage sites of Susa, Tchogha Zanbil and Shushtar His- shook the area within 40 minutes. Fairly powerful quakes A view of the UNESCO-registered Shushtar Historical torical Hydraulic System yet it is a region of raw beauty added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. Hydraulic System in Khuzestan province High in the Caucasus Mountains, shielded from the world by shook the capital city of Ahvaz and other cities across the where its visitors could spend weeks exploring. The prov- “There are a lot of historical monuments in Masjed forest-covered mountains, passing traders and their goods-lad- province, while it even affected the western province of ince is also a cradle for handicrafts and arts whose crafters Soleiman. For this reason, we have not yet fully monitored en animals would stop here on their way to Tbilisi or Baku and Lorestan. inherited from their preceding generations. overnight at one of the town’s five caravanserai. (Source: MSN) British Museum announces return of looted Iraqi and Afghan artifacts ROUND THE GLOBE Looted ancient artifacts from Iraq and on entry in 2011. He added the museum was seeking per- Afghanistan seized in Britain will be re- They were created between the 6th and mission from the National Museum of Af- turned to their country of origin after 4th centuries BC, with many belonging to the ghanistan to exhibit some of them in London Iguazu National Park appraisal by the British Museum, the administrative archives from a place called before their return. Located in Misiones Province in the Northeastern tip of institution said on Monday. Irisagrig, which was unknown until artifacts The British Museum has also developed a Argentina and bordering the Brazilian state of Parana to The London-based museum revealed it referring to it first surfaced in 2003. collaborative project with antiquities author- the north, Iguazu National Park, jointly with its sister park has been working with law enforcement “The British Museum has worked exten- ities, collectors, dealers and law enforcement Iguaçu in Brazil, is among the world’s visually and acoustically agencies including the UK Border Force sively with... law enforcement agencies to agencies which aims to identify and return most stunning natural sites for its massive waterfalls. It was and the capital’s Metropolitan Police to identify and return items looted from Iraq trafficked objects to Egypt and Sudan. inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1984. return the works smuggled out during and Afghanistan during recent conflicts and The scheme has identified almost 700 recent periods of conflict. these are just wonderful examples,” Fischer illicit artifacts looted and trafficked from the “Sadly, this work is more essential now said of the rare tablets. two countries over the past year. than ever,” said Hartwig Fischer, its direc- They will be handed over to the Iraq Mu- Looted ancient artifacts from Iraq and Af- “All of these projects and much more that tor, according to AFP. seum in Baghdad, part of the State Board of ghanistan seized in Britain will be returned the British Museum is doing across the world Among the artifacts to be sent back to Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq. to their country of origin after appraisal is of highest importance for us,” said Fischer. Afghanistan are Gandharan sculptures il- Crate discovery by the British Museum. However, the museum has faced criticism legally exported to Britain in 2002. The Gandharan works were discovered tiful sculptures. for failing to return some disputed items to Another important haul to be returned after two badly made wooden crates sent “The crates contained a magnificent bo- origin countries, most notably the Parthenon to Iraq features 154 Mesopotamian texts from the Pakistani city Peshawar caught the dhisattva torso and a group of nine heads Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, written on clay in cuneiform script -- one attention of British authorities at Heathrow sculpted in clay and then painted,” Fischer which Greece has long claimed. of the earliest systems of writing -- seized Airport and were opened to reveal the beau- explained. (Source: Asharq Al-Awsat) Highest-paid online travel CEOs of 2018 The CEOs of Booking Holdings, Expedia Group, and Tr- Okerstrom for second highest among the four executives, es decline last year compared with 2017 because of some ipAdvisor all saw their total compensation fall in 2018, all of the executives’ pay packages fell in 2018 versus 2017. nagging operational issues. but only because 2017 was an exceptional year for each. That’s because Booking’s Fogel, Expedia’s Okerstrom, and The company stated that these issues included “certain The semicircular waterfall at the heart of this site is Fogel of Booking and Okerstrom of Expedia were each TripAdvisor’s Kaufer each had a milestone year of sorts in non-income based tax issues at one of our smaller brands, some 80 m high and 2,700 m in diameter and is situated appointed as CEO in 2017, and Kaufer of TripAdvisor re- 2017, and 2018 looked a tad shabby in comparison. certain systems issues that arose during the year, and delays on a basaltic line spanning the border between Argentina ceived a long-term incentive award that was undoubtedly Shabby, though, is in the eyes of the beholder. In 2018, in the integration of our Rentalcars.com brand into our and Brazil. the envy of his peers. Fogel’s $20.45 million compensation was 402 times higher Booking.com brand.” Made up of many cascades producing vast sprays of water, The CEOs of Booking Holdings, Expedia Group, and than the average employee pay at the company, Okerstrom’s Such integration of Rentalcars.com into Booking.com it is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The TripAdvisor all took pay cuts in 2018. But shed no tears: $13.08 million bested the average Expedia worker 194 to 1, has been a hallmark of Fogel’s tenure as CEO since he took surrounding subtropical rainforest has over 2,000 species Their compensation dives last year were mostly because and Kaufer’s relatively modest $1.97 million bundle was still up the post in 2017. Traditionally, the Group’s various of vascular plants and is home to the typical wildlife of the each had a spectacular 2017. 19 times higher than the average TripAdvisor worker bee. brands operated more independently. But, as with Rental- region: tapirs, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, ocelots, Still, Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, was In determining the CEO performance of Fogel of Book- cars and Booking.com tied together, to some degree, Kayak jaguars and caymans. the most highly compensated public company online travel ing Holdings, the company’s compensation committee, now sees OpenTable within its purview. Agoda, too, may Located in Misiones Province in the Northeastern tip of leader in 2018 with total compensation of $20.45 million. as revealed in a financial filing, said it took into account be working more closely with Booking.com and Priceline Argentina and bordering the Brazilian state of Parana to In this era of massive CEO compensation packages, in room night growth of 12.9 percent, 16.8 percent revenue than it has in past years. the north, Iguazu National Park, jointly with its sister park the United States, at least, it may be crass to characterize growth, adjusted earnings before taxes, depreciation and Compensation for Fogel could be setting up somewhat Iguacu in Brazil, is among the world’s visually and acoustically it as such, but Fogel’s payday was relatively modest com- amortization growth of 18 percent, and “our industry-leading differently in 2019 because on June 26 he took on the addi- most stunning natural sites for its massive waterfalls. It was pared with the 2017 pay mark of TripAdvisor co-founder operating margin” of 36.8 percent. tional role as CEO of Booking.com, the parent company’s inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1984. and CEO Steve Kaufer, whose total compensation that year “From the Compensation Committee’s perspective, the largest unit, and Tans resigned, effective immediately. She The river, aptly named after the indigenous term for “great was nearly $47.9 million. company and Mr. Fogel performed well in 2018, in particular will serve in the newly created position of chairwoman of water” forms a large bend in the shape of a horseshoe in Kaufer’s 2017 payola, though, was sort of a lifetime when considering the competitive and macro-economic Booking.com for a year. the heart of the two parks and constitutes the international achievement award in that he received stock awards that environment in which we operate,” the company stated. Fogel now serves in the same dual role of CEO of both border between Argentina and Brazil before it flows into year of nearly $28.6 million, and option awards of $18.2 Fogel’s $20.45 million total compensation package Booking Holdings and Booking.com that a predecessor, the mighty Parana River less than 25 kilometers downriver million. Kaufer, who isn’t eligible for another long-term in 2018 represented a 26.3 percent reduction from 2017 Darren Huston, had for a couple of years until his ouster from the park. Large clouds of spray permanently soak the incentive equity grant until 2022, received total compen- because his stock awards declined by about $7 million. in a scandal in April 2016. many river islands and the surrounding riverine forests, sation in 2018 of just $1.97 million, the lowest of the four He had received a promotional grant in 2017 because of Gillian Tans, who served as both president and CEO of creating an extremely humid micro-climate favoring lush executives we considered. his elevation from head of strategy and planning to the Booking.com from April 2016 to June 2019, saw her total and dense sub-tropical vegetation harboring a diverse fauna. With the exception of then-Booking.com CEO Gillian CEO position. compensation rise 6 percent to $14.47 million, second only (Source: UNESCO) Tans, whose compensation package rose 6 percent to $14.47 Still, Fogel ($5.7 million), Tans ($4.84 million), and to Fogel’s among the four executives we considered in 2018. million in 2018, edging out Expedia Holdings’ CEO Mark other top executives at Booking Holdings saw their bonus- (Source: skift.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 10, 2019 HEALTH 11

Five died of Crimean-Congo Iranian researchers use nanotechnology for detecting hemorrhagic fever since March pain medication HEALTH TEHRAN — Iranian researchers have discovered deska novel method for measuring morphine and co- HEALTH TEHRAN — Since the infected meat; so it is vital that the Veterinary deine in blood and urine samples as quickly and precisely as possible. desk beginning of the current Organization closely examine the livestock This is a novel magnetic solid-phase extraction technique that [Iranian calendar] year (March 21), 54 people that are going to be consumed; moreover, uses a ternary nano-composite for simultaneous extraction and have been diagnosed with Crimean-Congo people should be careful not to buy contam- measurement of morphine and codeine in biological samples, Iran hemorrhagic fever and five of them lost their inated meat,” he added. Nanotechnology Innovation Council announced on Monday. lives, said Behzad Amiri, head of zoonotic “Our top priority is teaching the personnel Nano-composite is a multiphase solid material where one of the diseases department at the ministry of health. of slaughterhouses to prevent the spread of phases has one, two or three dimensions of less than 100 nanometers According to Amiri, over the last year, 84 the disease. For example, workers need to (nm) or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the cases of the disease were detected and eight maintain their personal hygiene; they also different phases that make up the material. people died of it, ISNA reported on Tuesday. must ensure that all animals that are sus- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was pected with having an infection are put in first spotted in Iran in [calendar] year 1387 quarantine.” (March 2008- March 2009); ever since, 1424 According to health ministry, annually, people have been diagnosed with the disease some 100 to 150 cases of Crimean-Congo and 190 of them have died, said Amiri. fever are reported in Iran. Sistan-Baluchestan, Khorasan Razavi, According to World Health Organization, Kerman, Isfahan, Fars and Mazandaran are the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever vi- the provinces that have the highest rate of rus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever the disease, respectively, said Amiri. outbreaks. Over the last 20 years, 851 cases of Crime- CCHF outbreaks have a case fatality rate an-Congo hemorrhagic fever have been of up to 40%. reported in Sistan-Baluchestan province Sistan-Baluchestan, Khorasan Razavi, The virus is primarily transmitted to alone, he added. people from ticks and livestock animals. The project was carried out jointly by researchers in Tabriz’s Amiri noted the disease incidence is es- Kerman, Isfahan, Fars and Mazandaran Human-to-human transmission can occur Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University and University of Zanjan. pecially high over warm seasons because the are the provinces that have the highest rate resulting from close contact with the blood, According to Prof. Hossein Abdolmohammad-Zadeh, faculty ticks become more active. of the disease, respectively. secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of member at Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, the ternary na- “The disease is mainly transmitted through infected persons. no-composite is created by synthesis of three components: magnetic iron oxide, Graphene oxide nanosheets and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The ternary nano-composite was used as a nano-sorbent in Unhealthy lifestyle causes two third of NCDs, deaths: official pre-concentration phase and before injecting the liquid into the chromatography device, said Abdolmohammad-Zadeh. HEALTH TEHRAN – The unhealthy lifestyle is thritis – a highly disabling degenerative disease of the “Biological samples have a complex texture and include a variety deskresponsible for two third of non-commu- joints), and some cancers (including endometrial, breast, of organic and mineral compounds; therefore it is hard to identify nicable diseases (NCDs) which lead to death, the secretary ovarian, prostate, liver, gallbladder, kidney, and colon) are the anesthetic components among them, but with using nanotech- of the 7th Symposium and the 4th National Self-care and common health consequences of overweight and obesity, nology we have now discovered a novel and precise way to identify Patient Training Festival announced. WHO warns. such elements,” he added. Abdolrahman Rostamian said that most of non-commu- Having too much sugar in the blood for long periods “Today, detecting the painkillers in biological samples has nicable diseases are derived from bad habits and lifestyle, of time can contribute to serious health problems if it’s become more important than ever, because the usage of them hence general health is a very important issue. not treated. Hyperglycemia can damage the vessels that has increased and it is necessary for physicians to know the exact He pointed to insufficient physical activity amongst supply blood to vital organs, which can increase the risk of amount of such compounds in the body; moreover, as they are Iranians as one of the main problems. heart disease and stroke, kidney disease, vision problems, also used as narcotics, detection of them can majorly help police In February, the health ministry announced that the and nerve problems. investigations,” he noted. prevalence of insufficient physical activity is about 57 per- Moreover, 30 percent of men and 36 percent of women According to Abdolmohammad-Zadeh, up to now, mass cent in Iran. aged 25 to 64 years also have high cholesterol due to over- spectrometry (MS) has been the most common method used According to the World Health Organization (WHO) weigh and obesity, consuming fast food, and insufficient for detecting morphine and codeine, but mass spectrometers are insufficient physical activity is one of the leading risk factors physical activity. usually very expensive, so using the novel ternary nano-composite for death worldwide. It is a key risk factor for non-com- memorate International Self-Care Day which provides a NCDs, a global health threat can be a good replacement for old methods. municable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular dis- focus and opportunity to raise the profile of healthy lifestyle Non-communicable diseases kill 41 million people each The research has also been published in Journal of Chro- eases, cancer and diabetes. More than 80% of the world’s self-care programs around the world. year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally. Each year, matography. adolescent population is insufficiently physically active. Some 300,000 Iranians die of NCDs annually 15 million people die from a NCD between the ages of 30 The metabolic syndrome is prevailing in Iran as a result In February, the health ministry announced that some and 69 years; over 85% of these “premature” deaths occur of lack of physical activity, he lamented. 300,000 Iranians die of NCDs annually in Iran, which means in low- and middle-income countries. Soy’s heart benefits hold He also named increased levels of uric acid as one of that one-fourth of the country’s population (standing at Cardiovascular diseases account for most NCD deaths, consequences of lack of physical activities, adding that 80 million) are overweight or obese which also results in or 17.9 million people annually, followed by cancers (9.0 steady over time unfortunately the death rate caused by NCDs is 79% in developing NCDs. million), respiratory diseases (3.9million), and diabetes Tehran while the figure is 75% in national level. Diabetes, a non-communicable diseases, is a serious (1.6 million). These 4 groups of diseases account for over The U.S. Food and Drug Administration might soon revoke soy’s “Per capita consumption of dairy is dramatically de- threat to the people’s health and is the fifth leading cause 80% of all premature NCD deaths. longstanding claim to boost cardiovascular health. creased amongst Iranians. The usage of hookah amongst of death in the country. Diabetes prevalence is 10 percent Tobacco use, physical inactivity, the harmful use of But now comes long-term research that appears to bolster the 15 years-old and above has increased to 17.5 percent,” he in Iran and is high among people aging 50 or more. alcohol and unhealthy diets all increase the risk of dy- notion that soy does indeed do a heart good. concluded. Cardiovascular diseases (mainly heart disease and ing from a NCD. Detection, screening and treatment of Canadian researchers pored over the results of 46 separate trials. The 7th Symposium and the 4th National Self-care and stroke), which were the leading cause of death in 2012, NCDs, as well as palliative care, are key components of Their conclusion: “These data strongly support the rationale behind Patient Training Festival will be held on July 24 to com- diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders (especially osteoar- the response to NCDs. the original FDA heart health claim for soy,” said study lead author David Jenkins, a professor of nutritional sciences and of medicine at the University of Toronto. Co-author John Sievenpiper, also a professor of nutritional sciences Mobile health centers for nomads to increase at the university, stressed that the overall benefit of soy for heart health wasn’t major -- just an average 5% reduction in cholesterol levels. HEALTH TEHRAN — The number to focus on zoonotic diseases, he said. “The Health Ministry should increase However, “if you put that together with other plant-based foods deskof mobile health centers Raisi made the remarks over a meeting cooperation with the Veterinary in a portfolio you get a much stronger effect,” he said in a university for nomads will be increased, announced where the Health Ministry signed a Organization. They should run joint news release. Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi. memorandum of understanding (MOU) inspections and develop their online The team’s findings come as the FDA mulls possibly removing According to Raisi, over the current with Iran Veterinary Organization. exchange of information about diseases the right to a labeling claim that soy “may reduce the risk of heart [Iranian calendar] year (started March 21), According to the MOU, the health and environmental health,” Raisi added. disease,” first approved by the agency in 1999. a new program to launch mobile health workers who travel with nomads must “The Health Ministry can benefit from the In an announcement issued in October 2017, the agency said it was centers for nomads was piloted for the first receive extra education so they can teach technological knowledge of the Veterinary considering revoking the claim, “based on our review of the totality of time in Fars province, Mehr news reported nomads about zoonotic diseases. Organization. Furthermore, we are currently publicly available scientific evidence currently available.” on Sunday. Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases drawing a map of diseases’ prevalence and The FDA said that evidence “does not support our previous deter- The nomads, wherever they travel, should caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites the Veterinary Organization can help us mination that there is significant scientific agreement among qualified have their own health centers if the nearest that spread between animals (usually with this project.” experts for a health claim regarding the relationship between soy health center to them is at least 30 minutes vertebrates) and humans. Major modern Earlier in June, the Health Ministry protein and reduced risk of coronary heart disease.” away, said Raisi. diseases such as Ebola virus disease and had announced that rural and nomadic charge breast cancer screening tests and It’s thought that the FDA will make a decision on the issue this The health centers are specially supposed salmonellosis are zoonoses. women in the country can enjoy free of prevention services for one year. summer. But the Toronto researchers say their review shows a consistent and long-term cardiovascular benefit. They looked at the same 46 trials the FDA cited in its 2017 an- nouncement, and found reductions in LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and Brain structure may play key role in psychosis total cholesterol among people who ate lots of soy. The benefit appeared New research finds that having a larger choroid plexus, which is “Our findings suggest the involvement of the choroid plex- steady across all 46 trials, they added. a vital brain structure, could be involved in psychosis. us across the psychosis spectrum, with a potential mechanism That consistency is important, Sievenpiper said. Variations in the structure of the choroid plexus, which pro- involving the neuro-immune system, which functions in reg- In some data reviews, “analyses with small studies produce big duces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), could play a key role in psychosis. ulating the brain and interacting with the body’s immune and effects that diminish over time as sample sizes increase and results A team that Dr. Paulo Lizano — of the Beth Israel Deaconess inflammatory systems.” get more precise. We saw that with fish oil, for example,” he said. “But in this case, nothing has changed.” Medical Center in Boston, MA — led has now investigated this What is psychosis? In Jenkins’ view, “these data strongly support the rationale behind vital structure. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, psy- the original [supportive] FDA heart health claim for soy.” In doing so, they found that there could be a link between chosis refers to a group of conditions that affect the mind when The new analysis received no direct funding from the soy industry. its size and the development of psychosis. someone experiences a “loss of contact with reality.” However, a university news release states that “Jenkins and Sieven- The choroid plexus and its product, CSF, are crucial parts During a psychotic episode, a person’s thoughts and per- piper have received support from government, nonprofit and indus- of the neurological system. CSF helps cushion the brain within ceptions are disturbed. They may find it difficult to understand try funding sources, some of which include companies and industry the skull, and the choroid plexus forms a barrier between the what is real and what is not. groups that produce or promote soy and other plant-based foods.” brain and the CFS, which helps filter out toxins and keeps blood Some symptoms of psychosis include: Two nutrition experts had varying views on the new data. components from entering the brain. the group with psychosis. • delusions, or false beliefs Michelle Milgrim is a registered dietitian who directs employee wellness at Northwell Health in Lake Success, N.Y. Reading over the It also allows some molecules to pass through, including The researchers also found that larger choroid plexus volume hallucinations, such as seeing or hearing things that others • findings, she said soy probably has a “modest” benefit to heart health. those involved with the immune system. correlated with reduced gray matter, smaller amygdala volume, do not “The bottom line: soy protein can still be enjoyed as part of an This study — which now appears in the American Journal of lower cognitive scores, larger ventricle volume, and lower levels • incoherent speech overall healthy diet, but you may want to consider additional actions Psychiatry — involved three groups of people: participants with of neural connectivity. • inappropriate behavior to help reduce your risk for heart disease -- exercise, smoking ces- a diagnosis of psychosis, one of their first degree relatives, and Although they cannot yet say with certainty, the research- Experts say that there is no single cause of psychosis. It can be sation, stress reduction, maintaining a healthy weight, and routine people with no history of psychosis (the controls). ers believe that these findings could also offer clues as to the a symptom of a mental health condition such as schizophrenia. visits with your doctor,” Milgrim said. Each participant underwent a structural MRI brain scan, pathology of psychosis. There are also several other potential causes, including some Nutritionist Katrina Hartog said the new review has some flaws, and the researchers found that the volume of the choroid plexus The team also found that people with an enlarged choroid medical conditions, drug and alcohol use, certain prescription however. was larger in those who had psychosis. plexus had high levels of a signaling cell associated with the medications, and sleep deprivation. In fact, the “limitations of this study would be similar to limitations associated with the proposed FDA soy health claim reversal,” she They also found that the volume of the choroid plexus among immune system, called interleukin 6 (IL-6). There were some scientific discussions in the 1920s about the said. These limitations include “the fact that some studies included first degree relatives was larger than that of the controls but IL-6 can cross the barriers between the brain, blood, and possible role of the choroid plexus in schizophrenia or bipolar in the analysis compared soy with a variety of alternative foods, and smaller than that of those with psychosis. CSF. The results are noteworthy; the team explains that people disorder. However, there had not been much specific research other studies used soy flour, added to high-temperature foods, which Additional findings who have schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often have higher on the topic before this study. can possible damage the soy protein structure and thus reduce the However, these were not the only significant findings from levels of IL-6. Dr. Lizano and colleagues conclude: (Source: medical news today) effectiveness of soy protein.” (Source: WebMD) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY JULY 10, 2019

Lions and tigers suffer ‘Nano bioremediation on painful deformities in industrial breeding schemes for traditional Chinese ‘medicine’ Anzali wetland worrisome’ ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — With huge scheme on a 12-hectare pond, he noted, Lions and tigers are being born with painful deformities caused desksediments accumulated in adding, during 6 months, some 12,000 tons by inbreeding at industrial-style centres that harvest their body Anzali wetland, a plan proposed using do- of sediments have been removed from the parts for a growing trade in traditional Asian “medicine”, inves- mestic bioremediation BioGME technology; pond using the technology. tigators have revealed. but some are expressing worries about the The sediment and sludge on the wetlands Big cats have been found with abnormalities to their faces, technology as being carcinogenic or posing bed is so huge that it cannot be removed by feet and legs, and may also suffer sight, hearing, breathing and a threat to aquatic species, ISNA reported traditional methods, however, the technology chewing problems, a major report says. on Tuesday. will boost up the process and the wetland will The animals are among the thousands cooped up in tiny Bioremediation is a process used to treat reach its ecological capacity, he highlighted. enclosures likened to factory farms, to be killed for their body contaminated water, soil and subsurface What caused the controversy on parts, which are boiled or chopped up to make tiger bone wine material, by altering environmental condi- bioremediation? and remedies for conditions from arthritis to meningitis, the tions to stimulate growth of microorganisms In this method, titanium dioxide, silver document exposes. and degrade the target pollutants. In many chloride, polysaccharide and fertilizer are The first ever global study of the Chinese “medicine” sup- cases, bioremediation is less expensive and used, but what makes the method a hot ply chain lays bare how faith in unproven treatments is directly more sustainable than other remediation topic these days is titanium dioxide used causing captive big cats to suffer on a huge scale and threatening alternatives. in this compound. their existence in the wild. BioGME technology is a treatment method Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is considered as Increasingly wealthy populations in China and Vietnam are for the pools which uses a combination of an inert and safe material and has been used driving up demand for “traditional medicine” products, the re- organic and chemical compounds that helps in many applications for decades. However, port says – and as the wild tiger is driven to extinction, so lions, to feed the plants, increase the absorption of mechanistic toxicological studies show that jaguar and leopards are also being killed to supplement supplies. chemical fertilizers and improves decomposi- BioGME approach is cancerous. ity has harshly declined water lilies which TiO2 nanoparticles predominantly cause ad- People believe remedies made from big cats can treat condi- tion of organic and chemical wastes, followed Human involvement caused An- attracted thousands of visitors annually, verse effects via induction of oxidative stress tions such as arthritis and rheumatism, promote strength and by a performance boost. zali wetland a misery he also regretted. resulting in cell damage, genotoxicity, in- increase sexual vigour. The scheme was proposed by researchers One of the most important concerns, which Aquatic species in danger flammation, immune response etc. A majority of those questioned in both countries prefer the at Isfahan Science and Technology Park and is referred to Anzali wetland, is a constant A fisherman also counting concerns on the Abdolreza Karbasi, faculty member of en- animals to come from the wild rather than farmed, believing the approved by the Department of Environment, drop in depth which was 11 meters before reduction of fish in the wetland, told ISNA vironmental science in University of Tehran, products are more effective, according to World Animal Protection so a memorandum of understanding has been while shrinking to 1 meter or even 50 cen- that fish population is declining, so that the said that TiO2 is permitted as an additive in (WAP), which produced the report. signed to revive the wetland. timeters in recent years. catfish and Zander species have been disap- food and pharmaceutical products which is The investigators also found “harrowing evidence” that in- International wetland under threat According to a report published by the peared in the wetland. approved by Food and Drug Administration, breeding and breeding at speed leaves some animals with painful Covering more than 19,000 hectares in University of Tehran in the Iranian calendar Silver carp population increased in the and TiO2 nanoparticles should be used with health problems including deformities, and they may also suffer the northern province of Gilan, the wetland year 1395 (March 2016-March 2017), the wetland and as an invasive species due to great care and low amounts. sight, hearing, breathing and chewing problems. is located near the port city of Bandar Anzali, amount of sediment accumulated in Anzali feeding on native species’ larvae, he lamented. Sampling of skin, meat, liver and blood China has up to 6,000 tigers awaiting slaughter, South Africa neighboring the Caspian Sea. The wetland wetland is usually 1 to 7 millimeters per year. Huge sediment not removed by of fish have been analyzed to determine the up to 8,000 lions, and Thailand 1,500 tigers. Laos and Vietnam was designated as a Ramsar site on June 23, If the average sedimentation rate is three traditional methods effects of TiO2 on the aquatic organism, he both also farm lions and tigers, the charity says. 1975. It is fed by several rivers and separated millimeters, one meter should be reduced Farshid Soheili Najafabadi, who suggest- said, adding, also, since it was possible that The big cats are either snatched from their mothers in the from the Caspian Sea by a dune system. The from the depth of the wetland in every 30 ed BioGME technology, said that a special TiO2 does not occur in the first generation wild or are born at breeding facilities – an increasing trend as lagoon is home to submerged and floating years, while the wetland’s depth has decreased working group for conservation of Anzali of fish but has an effect on its larvae, tests demand for tiger products has risen in recent years. vegetation and also extensive reed beds. It by 3 meters in past 30 years. wetland has issued a permit to employ the for the second and third generations of fish In China, investigators found long rows of battery-farm-style bears international importance in terms of Undeniably, human involvement has led technology on 25 hectares of the wetland are also ongoing. cells housing hundreds of tigers and lions and providing only breeding, staging and wintering water birds. to such a situation in Anzali wetland. some 3 years ago. Studies have shown that the use of TiO2 minimal food and water. Many animals were emaciated, with The lagoon has been listed in Ramsar Qorban Ali Mohammadpour, Gilan However, the working group›s condition is not only dangerous but also increases the their ribs and backbones highly visible, the witnesses said. Convention since December 21, 1975. province’s DOE chief, said that annually, was that the project must be initially reviewed fish safety, he added. The largest centre had more than 1,000 big cats in “camped, Anzali wetland has suffered huge sediment 580,000 tons of sediments spread over and approved by Japanese experts at the It is noteworthy that TiO2 constitutes only dismal, concrete enclosures and cages – harsh captive environ- and sludge accumulation due to entrance of the wetland which come from 4,000km Japan International Cooperation Agency 1 percent of the compounds, he highlighted. ments far removed from their wild natural homes”. Many paced domestic and agricultural sewage of five sur- catchment area, in addition to sewage of (JICA), he added. Project still awaiting approval back and forth from stress. rounding cities, which resulted in a decrease 5 cities entering the wetland. Japanese experts at the time of accepting At the moment, the project has been The report also highlights how “medicines” threaten big cats’ in the wetland’s depth and capacity along Moreover, the waste water of 238 villages the plan submitted five proposals, one of stopped by Gilan prosecutor›s office, as con- existence, saying: “It is likely that wild lions are illegally trafficked with threatening the biodiversity. directly or indirectly is released to the inter- which was to implement BioGME project in cerns about toxicity and carcinogenicity of by organised crime syndicates into South Africa from neigh- The Department of Environment intends national wetland, he regretted, adding, the a pond similar to the wetland environment titanium dioxide have not yet been resolved, bouring countries like Zimbabwe and Botswana and added to to reduce the depth of the sludge through entrance of household sewage along with and, after reviewing the results, decide on despite of planning to pilot the scheme on lion farm populations.” BioGME method, however, environmen- industrial and agricultural wastewater has led the implementation of the project in the 50 hectares of the wetland. Wild tiger populations are on the brink of extinction with talists are worried about the potential risks to the formation of sediments, especially in wetland, he explained. Researchers at Isfahan Science and Tech- fewer than 4,000 left worldwide. to the health of citizens and aquatic species the western and central parts of the wetland. So, a total budget of 1.1 billion rials nology Park have provided the prosecutor with Experts have long argued that “traditional medicines” have believing that the combination used in the On the other hand, the wetland’s capac- (nearly $27,000) allocated to pilot the scientific reports in order to resolve the issue. no proven medical benefits. But surveys by WAP found: In Vietnam, nearly 90 per cent of consumers of such medicine Private ownership of marsh crocodiles Iran, France discuss enhanced believe in it, and a quarter of the population use wildlife products such as “big cat plasters” outlawed environmental co-op A similar number preferred products from animals caught ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN —Iran has SOCIETY TEHRAN — Iran’s in the wild deskbanned the private deskDepartment of Envi- In China, two out of five people had used drugs or health ownership of marsh crocodiles and any ronment (DOE) chief, Issa Kalantari, and products containing big cat products violators would be fined or imprisoned, France’s ambassador to Iran, Philippe Thie- But the research also found two-thirds of Vietnamese respond- Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. baud, discussed increased cooperation on ents were willing to try herbal or synthetic alternatives, with half The mugger crocodile, also called marsh environmental issues during a meeting held saying this depended on price. crocodile is a crocodilian native to freshwater in Tehran on Monday. The report, which will be launched at a major Cites meeting habitats from southern Iran and Pakistan Greenhouse gas emission and climate next month, describes patchy international and domestic laws to the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka. change were the two main topics of their as “inadequate”. It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar and discussion, Mehr news agency reported South Africa’s petting farms, which supply the “canned” hunt- has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN some cases, the habitat of this species is on Tuesday. efficient due to sanctions, he regretted. ing industry, are perfectly legal, and animal bones are exported Red List since 1982. depleted by not providing the water rights “Confronting climate change requires He went on to say that sanctions can lead within quotas. Following a TV series first aired June 8, of the dams, he explained. a global commitment, precipitation in our to water and food stress, the spread of sand (Source: The Independent) called “Gando”, the species’ Persian name, According to the law, any keeping of country decreased by 20 percent over the and dust storms as well as air pollution. which was centering on spy issues, a mug- wildlife in private places without official past ten years due to the climate change,” The sanctions also cut off environmental ger crocodile was displayed in the series, permits is considered as crime, and criminals Kalantari for his part said. co-operation. WORDS IN THE NEWS which is said to provoke people’s feeling will be punished, he highlighted. “In fact, low rainfall leads to temper- “French car manufacturing companies for keeping one. He went on to say that private ownership ature raise, which result in the need for have stopped cooperation in producing An image of a mathematician? The main habitats of muggers in Iran is of wildlife species even on the TV screen has more water and eventually drought hits Euro 5 engines, which could reduce fuel mostly along rivers in Chabahar and Sar- a negative training aspect, adding, when the country. Iran is among the first victims consumption of 85 million liters to 60 mil- (January 4, 2001) baz cities of Sistan-Baluchestan province, wild species are shown in such programs, it of climate change in the world,” he added. lion liters per day,” he highlighted. 12 and 13-year-old children have pre-set images of what a southeastern part of the country. raises people’s enthusiasm toward petting Referring to Paris Agreement, he noted, “Therefore, some 7 percent less carbon mathematician looks like, and it’s not a very attractive picture. Asghar Mobaraki, a herpetologist said such species. “We have complied with all our commit- would have been generated and ultimately Professor John Berry from Plymouth University reports on that the two main habitats of the species So, this is not a good idea to use animals ments to reduce carbon emissions by 4 prevent climate change,” he added. his findings. are defined as protected areas which are in the movies, especially endangered ones, percent before its final approval, but unfor- “We will do our best, but the sanctions Is the unflattering image perhaps accurate? under the Department of Environment’s he concluded. tunately the European Union is committed are deterrent; without sanctions, over 12 It is accurate from their perspective because I think they don’t supervision. Hamid Zohrabi, deputy environment to sanctions.” percent of carbon emission can be curbed,” know what real mathematicians do and when we carried out Referring to their population distri- chief for natural environment and biodi- “The European Union did not even agree he stated. an intervention strategy of producing a panel of mathematicians bution in southern part of the province, versity directorate said in September 2018 to provide us the fossil fuel reduction tech- He further called on the European Union then the children were quite surprised that mathematicians are he noted that currently, some 500 marsh that regarding the latest condition of the nologies due to sanctions, which has led to and French officials to cooperate with Iran marsh crocodile in the country, fortunately, in environmental issues. in fact ordinary people. It is just that they are very good at crocodiles are living in different regions an increase in ozone levels in the capital’s the population of this species is increas- The two sides emphasized the need mathematics. of the country. air,” he lamented. The main reason behind their being ing, and a captive breeding center has been Iran spent over $3 billion on environ- for further efforts to resolve national and Was Professor Berry surprised by the similarity in images from endangered is habitat fragmentation, in launched in this regard. mental issues, which has not been fully international environmental issues. children from different countries (Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Romania and the United States)? We were surprised at the similarity yes. We weren›t surprised with the images that we had from the United Kingdom and the ENGLISH IN USE United States because we’ve been working with children for a long LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION time and I think our countries are very similar in the negative attitudes that people have towards mathematics. A teacher from Thailand contacted me via the email and said that she 150هزار دستگاه از تاکسی های کشور فرسوده هستند had carried out the same test and to her surprise they came 150,000 clunker taxis plying roads up with the same features, the same sort of caricature as we across Iran مرتضــی ضامنــی مدیرعامــل اتحادیــه تاکســیران یهای شــهری کشــور گفــت: یکــی .had described Words The situation of clunker taxis in Iran is worrying, as some 150,000 از مشــکالت موجــود در خصــوص نوســازی نــاوگان تاکســیرانی، انباشــت تعــداد زیــاد their perspective: from their way of thinking mathematicians: a mathematician studies problems involving of them are plying the roads, making a disproportionate impact تاکســ یهای فرســوده اســت بــه طــوری کــه در حــال حاضــر ۱۵۰هــزار دســتگاه numbers and calculations on the country’s air quality, Morteza Zameni, director general of intervention strategy: a plan to change the situation by getting urban taxis union has said. تاکســی فرســوده در کشــور داریــم کــه تــا حــد زیــادی بــر کیفیــت هــوا تاثیــر گذارند. involved in it panel: a small group of people who are chosen to do something ordinary people: people who are not seen as ‹different› just: what makes mathematicians different is not very important PREFIX/SUFFIX PHRASAL VERB IDIOM surprised: this was an unexpected result negative attitudes: a non-positive way of thinking or feeling “-cele, -coel, -coele” Pack into Crux of the matter towards: if you have a particular attitude towards people, you Meaning: tumor or swelling Meaning: to do a lot in a limited period of time, or Explanation: The main point or the most vital element feel like that about them For example: Meningocele is recognized as a rare fit a lot of information into a limited space of a discussion or argument carried out: you carry out a piece of research condition not associated with acute neurologic symptoms. For example: We packed a lot of sightseeing into For example: The crux of the matter is that he’s too caricature: a drawing or description that exaggerates an two weeks. old to live alone in that big house. appearance, to make people laugh. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 10, 2019 WORLD IN FOCUS 13

Yemen’s Houthis urge full European states can inject significant amount of export withdrawal of Saudi-led coalition credit into INSTEX: expert 1 The war escalated in March 2015 by the kingdom and its allies. 1 when the Saudi-UAE-led coalition launched Yemen’s al-Masirah television network Although INSTEX proposed to be operational earlier, a ferocious air campaign against the Yemen reported the counterattacks on Monday. It its utilization has been postponed by Europe on various in a bid to restore the fugitive government of specified the targets as the Abha airport in the pretexts. Paying attention to the fact that it is just pro- President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Since Saudi region of Asir and the Tihama power posed to be used for humanitarian aims, can it meet the then, tens of thousands of civilians and com- plant, which is located eight kilometers (4 needs of Iran? batants have been killed and as many as miles) northeast of Abha. A: Instex is a major undertaking and has an enormous 85,000 children may have starved to death. The retaliation used unmanned aircraft, political value for Iran, which has succeeded for the first A senior UAE official said on Monday the the network added. time to get America’s traditional allies in Europe to try country would reduce its troop presence in A Saudi-led coalition has been attacking to actively undermine its sanctions. It usually takes 2 Yemen, moving from a “military-first” to a Yemen since March 2015. The invasion has years to establish a new bank in Europe. Instex, which “peace-first” strategy. unsuccessfully been seeking to restore is an incredibly complex mechanism, was established “We do have troop levels that are down power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied in 6 months. While it is not going to be a lifeline for the for reasons that are strategic in (the Red officials. Iranian economy, it can have a significant impact if the Sea port city of) Hodeida and reasons that Tens of thousands have died and entire E3 were to inject significant export credit into it. There are tactical” in other parts of the country, a Yemen turned into the scene of the world’s might still be a way that EU-China cooperation could senior UAE official, who requested anonym- worst humanitarian crisis over the course help inject Iran’s oil revenue into the mechanism. But a ity, was quoted as saying by news agencies. of the invasion. smart Iranian strategy would pursue political incentives According to the unnamed UAE official, Also on Monday, the coalition claimed in Europe and economic incentives in Asia the Persian Gulf state pulled out some of its that it had intercepted and destroyed a forces from areas including the southern drone launched from Yemen at targets in port of Aden and the western coast. the kingdom, the kingdom’s official Saudi The UAE official emphasized his country’s Press Agency reported. Seven civilians killed in continued support for Saudi Arabia, saying that’s been discussed extensively with our sarullah popular defense movement “The drone has not achieved its targets,” air strike in northern discussions on troops’ movements had been partners, the Saudis. says it has hit an airport and a power the forces claimed. coordinated for more than a year. Yemenis target Saudi airport, station, targeting southwestern Saudi The statement, however, could not Afghanistan “This is not really a last-minute decision. power station in retaliation Arabia in retaliation for an ongoing be independently verified for its au- This is part of the process within the coalition Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi An- invasion of the impoverished nation thenticity. TEHRAN — Seven members of a family were killed in an air strike in the northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, the Afghan ministry of defense said in a statement. The air strike that led to civilian casualties was conduct- ed for “the elimination of enemy” in the KutobKhel area UAE holding prisoners after sentences Paris declares ‘climate emergency’ of the city of Pul-e-Khumri. A team from the ministry of defense has been assigned to assess and investigate the completed: HRW incident that led to the civilian casualties, the officials said in the statement, Reuters reported. TEHRAN — The United Arab Emir- past their completed sentences demon- TEHRAN— Paris, which in 2015 host- first in the world to declare a climate ates (UAE) continues to hold five strates brazen contempt of the rule ed the signing of a historic agreement emergency, passing the largely sym- prisoners after they completed their of law.” on fighting global warming, declared bolic motion on May 1, with Ireland’s sentences at least one year ago, a prom- “These men all have lives and fam- a climate emergency Tuesday follow- parliament passing a similar motion Ethiopian-Israelis protest inent human-rights group has said. ilies to go back to and should not face ing similar moves by other cities and on May 10. In a report released on Tuesday, the cruel and unlawful prospect of in- national parliaments. According to The Climate Mobili- police brutality in Tel Aviv Human Rights Watch said the men definite detention.” “Paris, like other cities, declares zation, a U.S. NGO pushing for such TEHRAN — Hundreds of Ethiopian-Israelis, mostly were being held at a counselling center There was no immediate comment a climate emergency,” Celia Blauel, declarations, some 650 local author- women, have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to vent their at al-Razeen prison on accusations of by UAE authorities. deputy mayor in charge of the envi- ities in cities and towns across the anger at a police officer’s fatal shooting of a black youth, “posing a terrorist threat” and faced The prisoners include Khalifa al-Ra- ronment, told a municipal council world have now declared a climate demanding justice in the case. potential indefinite detention under bea, Othman al-Shehhi, Badr al-Buhairi meeting, stressing the need to ad- emergency. The protesters denounced police violence and discrim- the UAE’s counter-terrorism law. and Ahmad al-Mulla - four activists here to the objectives of the 2015 In a major victory for the activists, ination against Israel’s largely impoverished Ethiopian It cited Emirati activists as saying linked to al-Islah, a registered Islamist agreement. New York City declared a climate emer- community during Monday’s rallies, chanting slogans such that the five remained behind bars for movement that the UAE banned as a The declaration also said Paris city gency on June 26, becoming the biggest as “Racism kills.” “counseling” without a clear legal basis. “terrorist group” in 2014. hall would create a “climate academy” city to make the announcement. They also carried signs reading, “Mom, don’t let me be According to the report, three of the Following their arrest in July 2013, with the aim of better educating the The 2015 Paris deal saw nations the next victim,” and “different from the outside but the men were sentenced to three years in al-Rabea and al-Shehhi were sen- young and the public about the issue. commit to limit global temperature same within.” prison and two to five years “on state tenced to five years in prison in 2014 Ahead of municipal elections next rises to “well below” two degrees Celsius One of the demonstrators, identified as Janet, told the security charges following what appear “for tweeting in support of scores of year, the French capital’s socialist may- and to a 1.5C cap if possible. Ynet news site, “If my child cannot go out and come home to be unfair trials in 2014 and 2016”. political detainees in 2012”, according or Anne Hidalgo is seeking to burnish But in a major blow, President Don- [safely], no mothers are going to be silent. I’m prepared Michael Page, deputy Middle East to Human Rights Watch. They were her green credentials, with climate ald Trump announced in June 2017 to bleed, and I’m prepared to die.” director at Human Rights Watch, said: scheduled for release in July 2018, Al change a real concern for many voters. that the United States was pulling out An off-duty Israeli police officer shot to death 19-year- “Denying detainees freedom for years Jazeera reported. Britain’s parliament became the of the agreement, AFP reported. old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah in the Kiryat Haim suburb of Haifa on June 30. A youth counselor, who was working close to the scene of the shooting, stressed that there was no danger to the U.S. needs to ‘immediately cancel’ arms sale to Taiwan: China officer’s life that could have prompted him to open fire. TEHRAN — China has called on the United States to “im- almost all world countries recognize that sovereignty under “He (the policeman) lined up to shoot and fired a single mediately cancel” a major potential arms sale to Taiwan, the policy known as One China. bullet when Solomon was at least 30 meters away from him. which Beijing considers as a serious violation of its sover- The U.S., too, recognizes Chinese sovereignty over From where I was standing, [I saw] he wasn’t shooting to- eignty over the self-ruled island. Taiwan, but it has long courted Taipei in an attempt to ward his legs but was really aiming straight at him,” he said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made counter Beijing. However, the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Inves- the remark after the Pentagon announced on Monday the Since Trump took office in January 2017, his adminis- tigations Department claimed a probe into Tekah’s death approval of the possible arms sale, estimated to be worth tration has opened a new de facto embassy in Taipei and had concluded that the officer had fired at the ground and 2.2 billion dollars. passed a law to encourage senior U.S. officials to travel to the bullet apparently ricocheted into the teenager. The sale, which is said to be requested by Taipei, includes Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts. The killing sparked violent protests last week, leaving Abrams tanks and Stinger missiles. Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Presidential Office expressed “sin- over 100 police officers injured and nearly 200 demon- “The sale of weapons by the United States to Taiwan... cere gratitude” to Washington, saying that the island would strators arrested, Press TV reported. seriously violates the One-China principle... grossly inter- “continue to deepen security ties with the U.S.” feres in China’s internal affairs and undermines China’s According to Press TV, back in March, Taiwan’s Presi- sovereignty and security interests,” Geng said. dent Tsai Ing-wen said that the U.S. was responding positively UN’s Bachelet ‘appalled’ by Geng called on the U.S. to abide by the One China policy. to Taipei’s requests for new arms sales to bolster its defenses China has constantly warned the U.S. over its relations in the face of what she described as pressure from China. Beijing comes as the two are already involved in a bitter U.S. migrant detention camp with Taiwan. Beijing has sovereignty over the island and The recent confrontation between Washington and trade dispute. conditions

TEHRAN — UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is “appalled” at the conditions in which the United States is Trump attacks UK premier for Brexit ‘mess’ keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, TEHRAN — U.S. President Donald Trump go another way.” “career could end in disgrace.” The U.S. leader further appeared to be her office said in a statement on Monday. has attacked British Prime Minister Theresa “I have been very critical about the “I do not know the Ambassador, but he distancing himself from premiership hope- “As a paediatrician, but also as a mother and a former May over the “mess” resulting from the UK’s way the UK and Prime Minister Theresa is not liked or well thought of within the US. fuls in the UK, asserting that his state visit head of state, I am deeply shocked that children are forced decision to leave the EU. May handled Brexit. What a mess she We will no longer deal with him. The good last month was focused on Queen Elizabeth, to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to slam and her representatives have created. news for the wonderful United Kingdom is Press TV reported. to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation May as well as Britain’s ambassador to the I told her how it should be done, but that they will soon have a new Prime Min- “While I thoroughly enjoyed the mag- conditions,” the statement quoted Bachelet as saying. United States, Sir Kim Darroch, whose leaked she decided to go another way,” said the ister,” he said. nificent State Visit last month, it was the U.S. President Donald Trump has made a hardline im- comments about the U.S. president has drawn U.S. president. The British Foreign Commonwealth Of- Queen who I was most impressed with,” migration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 the media’s attention. He further suggested that the White House fice argued that Darroch’s comments do not Trump said, despite his attempts then to re-election bid. Trump claimed that he had told May would not continue working with Darroch necessarily reflect London’s stance, stressing meet the frontrunner, Boris Johnson, who Democratic politicians and civil rights activists who have how to handle Brexit, “but she decided to in the wake of his prediction that Trump’s that the envoys are expected to be honest. refused to meet with him. visited migrant detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border have described nightmarish conditions marked by overcrowding and inadequate access to food, water and other basic needs. Last week the Department of Homeland Security’s Berlin rejects Washington’s call for deploying ground forces to Syria inspector general published photos of migrant-holding TEHRAN — Germany has rejected a call by the United government or a UN mandate. centers in the Texas Rio Grande Valley crammed with twice States to deploy ground troops in Syria, a stance that Germany has so far deployed surveillance aircraft as many people as they were meant to hold. will most likely anger U.S. President Donald Trump and other non-combat military support in Syria, but it “In most of these cases, the migrants and refugees have who wants the European country to commit to a bigger does not have ground troops in the Arab country, unlike embarked on perilous journeys with their children in search military role in the Middle East. the U.S. which has deployed some 2,000 forces there. of protection and dignity and away from violence and hun- German government spokesman Steffen Seibert The request by the U.S. comes after Trump’s an- ger,” Bachelet said. made the comment during a regular press briefing nouncement last year that he was withdrawing most “When they finally believe they have arrived in safety, in Berlin on Monday, a day after U.S. special repre- of American troops from Syria. they may find themselves separated from their loved ones sentative on Syria James Jeffrey told reporters in Jeffrey said Sunday that Washington wanted and locked in undignified conditions. This should never Berlin about Washington’s call on Berlin about the “ground troops from Germany to partially replace happen anywhere.” Deprivation of liberty of adults should Syria deployment. our soldiers.” be a measure of last resort, and should be for the shortest “When I say the government envisages sticking to He added that the German ground troops, if ever period possible with legal safeguards and in conditions the current measures in” the anti-Daesh “(military) deployed, might not necessarily need to engage in meeting international human rights standards, she said. coalition, this includes no ground troops, as is well combat and could rather ease the burden on the Detaining a child for even short periods under good known,” Seibert said. remaining U.S. forces by helping with air support, conditions could have a serious impact on their health Jeffrey, who was on a visit to the German capital for According to Press TV, the U.S. and its allies, in- logistics, training and technical assistance. and development, she added. Syria talks, said Sunday that he expected an answer cluding Germany, have been bombarding what they Nevertheless, he said combat should not be ruled “Border management... should not be based on narrow this month but apparently Germany didn’t need that call Daesh positions inside Syria since September out since ground troops would need to be prepared policies aimed only at detecting, detaining and expeditiously long to reject the call. 2014, without any authorization from the Damascus to defend themselves. deporting irregular migrants,” she said. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS JULY 10, 2019

Mino Raiola hits out at Who’s who in the operation to Manchester United for not defending Paul Pogba Paul Pogba is showing Manchester United “respect” de- bring Neymar back to Barcelona? spite the midfielder’s determination to force himself out of the club, according to his agent, Mino Raiola. It’s so complex and detailed that it could tion, though he enjoys a good relationship The 26-year-old has stated he wants a new challenge be a Hollywood movie, though the future with the Brazilian. He is more critical of and last week Raiola spoke of Pogba’s “willingness to move of Neymar has taken another twist as Kylian Mbappe, even in public, despite on”. This is despite Pogba, one of United’s highest-paid Paris Saint-Germain released a statement incidents with Neymar, though he will players, being contracted until 2021. slamming his absence from pre-season accept the club’s decision to focus on the “The player has done nothing wrong,” Raiola told training. Increasingly, his future looks Frenchman for the future. TalkSport. “He has been respectful and professional in to lie away from the French capital with Josep Maria Bartomeu (Pres- every way and always. The club has known his feeling Barcelona tipped as a likely destination. ident) for a long time.” Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al With each passing day he is more Raiola also claimed that United should defend Pogba Thani (owner) convinced by the option of bringing against criticism he is receiving for his desire to depart. “It In order of importance, the first is Neymar back, forgiving him for his exit is a shame other people only like to criticise without the Tamim bin Hamid Al-Thani, the PSG two years ago when the club were the right information, and I am also sorry that the club does owner who would be the one to give the last ones to know. He has publicly stat- not take any position against this,” he said. “Hopefully green light on any deal. The Emir of Qatar ed that Ousmane Dembele is the better there will be soon a satisfying solution for all parties.” and president of Qatar Sports Investments, player but also recognised that Neymar Pogba is with the United squad in Perth as the club he is involved in everything and is keen wants out, though PSG won’t allow him start their pre-season tour. for sport to show Qatar’s modern image. to. He now sees the possibility, rather Ole Gunnar Solskjær is reportedly interested in South- However, he is increasingly concerned than probability, of building the club’s ampton’s 25-year-old midfielder Mario Lemina. Arsenal that Neymar’s off the field behaviour is most attractive ever front line on and off and Leicester are also monitoring the Gabonese, according impacting the image of the club. the field. The ongoing crisis behind the to the Press Association, though no club have met the Nasser Al-Khelaïfi (President) scenes shouldn’t impact this operation. valuation. Southampton paid Juventus an initial €17m The Sheikh’s right hand man, he would Oscar Grau (CEO) for Lemina two years ago and although he has made only be the one to negotiate with Barcelona He will be the man charged with bal- three appearances since the turn of the year and the club despite the poor relationship between Football made a summer exit suddenly dressing room until now. He was behind ancing the books, potentially between the are thought to want to recoup this. the clubs in sporting terms after the 6-1 seem possible, though he will only do Maxwell’s move from Barcelona in 2012, arrivals of Neymar and Antoine Griez- (Source: Independent) comeback or off the field, as controversies what the owners say. but he is primarily focused on signings mann, not to mention Frenkie de Jong or with Marco Verratti and Adrien Rabi- Leonardo (Sporting Director) rather than outgoings and should play Neto. The balance of wages for LaLiga’s ot have proven. He is not enjoying his Whilst he knows Neymar, he hasn’t a secondary role. salary cap is also a factor, which gives best moment but still has the faith of met with him in Paris since he replaced Thomas Tuchel (Coach) him an important role to play. Lack of black match officials the owners. His interview with France Antero Henrique to install order in the He will have little to do with the opera- (Source: Marca) in English game a problem - referees chief Barty’s Wimbledon party over but world Djokovic is a ‘deadly spider’, says No.1 looks ahead with hope opponent’s coach The lack of black officials in English professional football is a problem that needs to be addressed and will only change if there is a more inclusive environment, referees chief Mike Riley said. There have been no black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) referees in England’s top four divisions since Uriah Rennie retired in 2009. “It is something that we need to address,” Riley, the managing director of the Professional Game Match Of- ficials Ltd (PGMOL), told The Times. “There is still a lot more to do, and we need to look at more flexible pathways and to make sure the environment is more inclusive. “We need to take diversity really seriously and create opportunities for everyone. Actually it is in our interest, we want really good referees to come through.” Riley said that the FA had made a big effort to increase diversity at the county level and that was beginning to bear fruit. In 2014, the FA set a target of having 10% of referees at grassroots and elite level from BAME backgrounds. Ash Barty’s surprise fourth-round defeat ened to make her reign a short one. Playing Novak Djokovic is like facing a talk about Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer The FA says 44 of 52 County FAs had achieved their to unheralded American Alison Riske at Third seed Karolina Pliskova blew her killer eight-legged spider that can reach but he is the defending champion. 2018-19 BAME refereeing targets, which reflected the Wimbledon was a bitter pill to swallow chance to snatch top spot with her own everything you throw his way -- so says “We are the underdog -- and we like it.” demography of the area. after her giddy ride to the top of world defeat to compatriot Karolina Muchova the coach of his Wimbledon quarter-final Johansson, 44, has been working with “We have all got a responsibility to make sure that tennis but the Australian said it would later on Monday, however. opponent David Goffin. Goffin on tactics to contain Djokovic, namely refereeing as a whole is representative, that it is inclusive only fortify her for the rest of the year. Barty skirted a number of potential The defending champion and world a much-improved slice and drawing the and that the pathways work for everybody,” Riley said. Having seemed invincible since her controversies in her no-nonsense style, number one takes on Belgian 21st seed top seed to the net. (Source: Mirror) maiden Grand Slam triumph at Roland refusing to buy into outrage back home Goffin on Centre Court on Wednesday for “We will try to find a good solution be- Garros, Barty was overhauled in three over a number of perceived slights rang- a place in the semi-finals. cause rallying with him is not an option,” sets by Riske, who lived up to her name ing from ‘sexist broadcasting’ to Serena Goffin’s coach Thomas Johansson said the Swede said. by attacking relentlessly on Court Two. Williams’s ignorance of her top ranking. he had a game plan to drag Djokovic out Goffin is only the fifth Belgian man in Record 14 million The result snapped Barty’s 15-match The Twitterati were protesting again of his comfort zone. history to reach the Wimbledon quarter-fi- winning streak while cutting short her over the scheduling of her Riske match on “It’s almost impossible to find any weak- nals -- and, along with Xavier Malisse in tickets requested for Euro run at a tournament where she had not Court Two but the former cricketer played nesses in his game,” the 2002 Australian 2002, the only one to do so since 1924. dropped a set and seemed in complete a straight bat to reporters’ queries, saying: Open champion said of Djokovic. Malisse, 38, said the odds were heavily 2020 - UEFA command. “I’ll play on any court I’m scheduled on.” “He doesn’t have a big serve but it is in favour of Djokovic -- but Goffin could “It’s disappointing right now. Give me Barty will head to the U.S. hardcourt very, very accurate. From the baseline still spring a surprise. More than 14 million tickets have been requested for an hour or so, we’ll be all good. The sun’s season with hope, having shrugged off a he’s a wall. “It’s going to be tough. Everyone knows the 2020 European Championship during the first three still going to come up tomorrow,” Barty previously modest record at the Grand “I remember hitting with him many it -- including him,” the former world num- weeks of the sales window, breaking the tournament’s told reporters. Slams with a first fourth-round appearance years ago; it’s like hitting against a spider. ber 19 said. record for registrations, UEFA said on Tuesday. “Overall it’s been a hell of a trip ... at the U.S. Open last year. It feels like everything is coming back. “But it’s one match. If he’s on good form In the month-long first phase of sales starting on June Obviously it’s a tough pill to swallow. In “We focus on the positives,” said the “You really have to try to put him in and Djokovic is off a bit, gets a little stressed 12, 1.5 million tickets were made available to the general the same breath, it’s been an incredible plainspoken Australian. uncomfortable positions on the court -- or nervous, that can change things. public as part of UEFA’s “fan-first” ticketing policy for few months. “The positives of what have been over otherwise he will kill you.” “It’s about 60 to 65 percent in Djok- the tournament. “New ground for me here at Wimbledon. the last two months, last six months, and Goffin, 28, has matched his best-ever ovic’s favour.” Euro 2020, which runs from June 12-July 12, is being This is the best we’ve done. for this year, it’s been incredible. performance at the Grand Slams by reaching Goffin’s route to the last eight has seen played in 12 cities across Europe for the first time to mark “Also proud of the fact what we’ve been “Today wasn’t my day, but that’s not his first Wimbledon quarter-final. him knock out Bradley Klahn, Jeremy the 60th anniversary of the competition. able to do over the last eight weeks,” she going to define us as a team, it’s not going Four-time Wimbledon champion Djok- Chardy, 11th seed Daniil Medvedev and European soccer’s governing body said the demand for added. to define me as a person. That’s the most ovic, 32, has a 5-1 record over Goffin -- but Fernando Verdasco. tickets among locals is highest in St Petersburg, London “The consistency we’ve brought day in important thing. the Belgian won their last encounter, on clay Belgium’s Kim Clijsters, a two-time and Budapest, with more than 50% of tickets requested and day out, has been next to none. That’s “I have some really good memories in the Monte Carlo quarter-finals in 2017. Grand Slam champion, said her compa- in these cities having been by supporters from the host one of the best things about this trip.” (of the U.S. Open) from last year. We go “It’s very important for David to have triot had been playing better than ever. nations. Barty captured the world number one back, we knuckle down, train again, then beaten him once. Most of the guys never “It’s very exciting,” said the retired The final at Wembley has received 1.3 million ticket ranking during her win at the leadup event we go again.” have,” Johansson said. 36-year-old. requests, while the two semi-finals at the same venue in Birmingham but the loss to Riske threat- (Source: Reuters) “Novak is the guy to beat here. You can (Source: AFP) have attracted a combined 1.5 million applications. The first-phase tickets are being sold on euro2020. com/tickets until 1400 CEST (1200 GMT) on Friday. Becker’s missing trophies still taxing bankruptcy trustees The next phase of ticket sales will begin in December One of the bankruptcy trustees charged with handling the “Wherever they are I would love to have them.” after the final tournament draw takes place on Nov. 30, case of six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker has Ford said the level of co-operation from Becker’s side with 1 million tickets on offer for fans of participating appealed to anyone who might have any of the German’s was improving. nations. missing trophies to come forward. “We are getting there,” he said. (Source: Guardian) Mark Ford, charged with collating and selling Becker’s Ford, who says Becker’s debts could total as much as assets, told AFP the ongoing online auction of 82 items, in- £50million ($62million), says there are still “some large cluding trophies and photographs belonging to the German, ones (trophies) out there”. Serena fined $10,000 for who was declared bankrupt two years ago, was on course to “As an example, when you win Wimbledon you are pre- be more successful than the auction last year. sented with three trophies,” he said. Wimbledon court damage That had to be aborted when Becker claimed diplomatic “There are quite a few out there including two Aussie immunity due to being appointed the Central African Re- Opens and four or five Wimbledon successes outstanding.” public’s “sporting, cultural and humanitarian attache to - ‘In good hands’ - Seven-time champion Serena Williams has been fined the European Union”. One of the more delicate matters relates to a trophy -- Ford $10,000 for damaging one of the All England Club courts Ford said: “It certainly was a very unusual and probably says it is one of the three from Becker’s first Wimbledon title with her racquet, officials said Tuesday. difficult time.” The 51-year-old German, still the youngest at win -- that Becker claims to have given his mother. The 37-year-old American was sanctioned for an in- 17 to have won the Wimbledon men’s title in 1985, withdrew “It is bemusing,” said Ford, one of three insolvency prac- “It is difficult to challenge when one person says one cident which took place during a practice session before that claim last December. titioners at London-based Smith & Williamson. thing and somebody else says another and it is not docu- the tournament got underway. Ford was then able to launch the on-line auction again, “We have asked and continued to ask for them. mented,” said Ford. “The code given is for unsportsmanlike behaviour. using auctioneers Wyles Hardy, who have “good credentials “We released a joint press statement with Mr Becker last “It is a tricky one and we have agreed to deal with this The reason is court damage,” a spokeswoman told AFP. in the sporting sector”. year for them (the people who might have them) to come at a later time. Williams is in action twice later Tuesday when she While Ford, who equates Becker’s case as being as com- forward if they have them. “Mrs Becker was present when we removed the trophies before. faces fellow American Alison Riske for a place in the plex as a corporate insolvency, is content both in terms of “The nature of trophies is they could well be on display. For “That one and one other were claimed to have been gift- semi-finals. the bids and that bidders from 30 different nationalities instance, the US Open trophy came back from the Hall of Fame. ed. We felt it appropriate at the time to leave them there in She then returns to Centre Court to partner Britain’s have expressed an interest, he would be happier if all the “They could be on display somewhere in a museum or good hands having acknowledged we had not necessarily Andy Murray in the mixed doubles. trophies were accounted for as it would raise more money venue or forgotten and left behind in a private residence accepted they were gifted.” (Source: AFP) to pay back the creditors. somewhere. (Source: AFP) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JULY 9, 2019 SPORTS 15

FIVB President Graça apologizes to Iran Iranian volleyball players are understandably upset: volleyball over Chicago airport incident FIVB official SPORTS TEHRAN — The In- to ensure that the Iranian delegation deskternational Volleyball would have a smooth entry procedure. FIVB spokeswoman Anna Manuelian says Iranian volleyball players Federation (FIVB) President Ary Graça We were shocked to find out what hap- are understandably upset after their team was detained for more has apologized to the Iranian volleyball pened. I can assure you that the world than four hours when they arrived at O’Hare International Airport. team for the incident happened at the federation will find a way to prevent Some Iranian players were forced to answer “nonsensical O’Hare International Airport on Monday. «such an incident» in the future. We questions” one by one, while the Polish team was able to leave The Iranian team arrived in Chicago wish the Iranian team the success in the the airport immediately, no questions asked. after a 30-hour flight but was delayed 2019 Volleyball Nations League,” Graça for more four hours. wrote in a letter sent to Iran Volleyball Iran volleyball federation immediately Federation. lodged a complaint to the International Iran have been drawn with Brazil Volleyball Federation (FIVB) over the and Poland in Pool B and hosts the U.S. incident. are pitted against Russia and France The VNL final round will be held in Pool A. in the Credit Union 1 Arena, Chicago, The Iranian team, who are looking United States from July 10 to 14. for the VNL first medal, will start the “On behalf of the FIVB and entire competition with a match against pow- volleyball family, I would like to apol- erhouse Poland on July 11. ogize to Iran volleyball and we are Team Melli will meet Brazil on July 12. really ashamed of what has happened This will be the first edition of the in Chicago airport. The FIVB worked World League or the Nations League to very closely with various stakeholders have the Final Round hosted in North including the IOC, USOC and USAV America. “Ahead of their arrival, the FIVB worked very closely with various stakeholders including the IOC, USOC and USAV to ensure that the Iranian delegation would have a smooth entry Persepolis keeper Radosevic shown exit door Cheick Diabaté joins Iran’s Esteghlal procedure. And whilst many of the Iranian delegation were not detained for an unusual period, those that were are understand- ably upset,” Manuelian stated in an email. Manuelian said the Iranian team arrived safely at their hotel, and will play in the VNL Finals, which start Wednesday at Cred- it Union 1 Arena at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They practiced Monday afternoon at UIC. Iran’s volleyball team is slated to play against Poland on Thurs- day and Brazil on Friday. Two out of the final six teams playing in the Finals will face off Sunday in the championship game. (Source: CBS Chicago)

Rubin Kazan forward Shekari joins Tractor Sazi

IRNA — Iranian football club Tractor Sazi completed the signing of Rubin Kazan striker Reza Shekari. The 21-year-old forward has joined the Tabriz-club football SPORTS TEHRAN — Persepolis left on his current contract. SPORTS TEHRAN — Iranian career in France and has played in team on a three-year contract. desknewly-appointed coach Radosevic had joined Persepolis from deskfootball club Esteghlal Bordeaux, Ajaccio, Nancy and Metz. Shekari made a name for himself four year ago when he scored Gabriel Calderon has shown the team’s Hungarian Debreceni VSC in 2016. completed the signing of Malian striker He also played in Italian club Ben- his first professional goal in a match against Persepolis in Hazfi Croat goalkeeper Bozidar Radosevic the He won three Iran Professional League Cheick Diabaté on Tuesday. evento and Emirates on loan. Cup, where Zob Ahan won the game 2-0. exit door. with Persepolis. Radosevic also claimed The 31-year-old striker has penned Diabaté will join Esteghlal training He joined Rubin Kazan U-21 team in 2017 and made his Rus- Radosevic is second choice behind Al- three Super Cup titles and one Hazfi Cup a two-year contract with Esteghlal. camp in Turkey. sian Premier League debut in April 2018 in a game against FC ireza Beiranvand but he should leave the with the Iranian giants. Radosevic has said The details of Diabaté’s contract Diabaté has made 39 caps for Mali Akhmat Grozny. Iranian team. he is under contract with Persepolis and have not been revealed. national football team and scored 15 Persepolis had reportedly reached an agreement with Shekari The 30-year-old goalie has one year is going to stay in the club. Diabaté started his professional goals. but the player opted Tractor Sazi for the new season.

Iran fall short against U.S. at 2019 IFCPF World Cup Iran’s Zob Ahan to host SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran suffered a late loss Iran created several chances to equalize the match but deskagainst the U.S. in the 2019 IFCPF World Chris Boyle made three incredible saves in the dying minutes Al Ittihad in Doha: ACL Cup opener in Sevilla, Spain. to preserve the 3-2 U.S. victory. The Paralympic silver medalists lost to the U.S. 3-2 at In another Group B match, Ireland humiliated Finland 10-0. the Ciudad Deportiva Sevilla FC Cisneros Palacios in Sevilla Iran will face Ireland on Wednesday, while the U.S. TASNIM — Iran’s Zob Ahan have chosen Doha as the neutral late Monday. meet Finland. venue to host Saudi Arabian team Al Ittihad in the 2019 Asian The Persians jumped to an early lead when Rasul Atasha- The 2019 IFCPF World Cup features 16 of the world’s Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League knockout stage. frouz was on target in the 8th minute. Iran doubled their top Para 7-a-side teams that qualified through IFCPF Zob Ahan will host Al Ittihad on August 12 in the second leg lead five minutes later when Shahab Rahimikandoleh’s shot Regional Championships and the IFCPF rankings. at the Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar. from 25 yards deflected off a defender and in. Ukraine enter the tournament as reigning world cham- The first leg will be played at the Al Maktoum Stadium in Nick Mayhugh pulled a goal back in the 21st minute and pions after winning the 2017 IFCPF World Championships. Dubai, the UAE a week earlier. Seth Jahn equalized the match in the 53rd minute. The Nations According to the Asian Football Confederation, clubs from The U.S. then finished the comeback in the last minute Group A: Japan, Germany, England, Brazil Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran should of regulation, with Mayhugh going on a half-field solo run Group B: Ireland, Iran, Finland, the U.S. play on a home and away basis as per the AFC regulations, but down the right flank before ripping a low shot inside the Group C: Ukraine, Spain, Australia, Argentina Saudi Arabia violated the order as their teams will not come to far post for the game-winner. Group D: Thailand, Russia, Netherlands, Canada Iran to play the country’s teams. The 2019 AFC Champions League started on February 5 and will be played until November 24, 2019. World’s elite storm Chicago for Men’s VNL Finals From Oleg Antonov’s very first serve France and then beating Brazil in straight France in four sets at Cannes. Indonesia’s Aceh says for Italy against Iran that set things in sets in the third-place playoff, are this It’s then Iran against Poland on Thurs- motion in Jiangmen on May 31 to Alan time playing in front of a home crowd day, as the long-standing and ongoing women’s football ‘forbidden’ Souza’s block on Italy’s Alberto Polo and are surely after something better. intense rivalry between the two sides that wrapped up pool play in Brasilia However, this time they’ll have to comes to a head - just three short weeks unless all-female on June 30, there’s been 20,770 rallies overcome France as well as Russia in after Iran outlasted the world champions over 200 hours and 35 minutes net of the Finals pool which features all three in five sets in Urmia earlier in this VNL. Less than a week after the women’s world cup football final drew pure volleyball played across the globe in of last year’s medalists, just to make it That’s then followed by a rematch of record crowds and global TV audiences, clerics in a hardline the Preliminary Phase of the 2019 FIVB to this seasons’ medal matches. last year’s VNL final, with France seeking Islamist Indonesian province said attempts to revive the game in Men’s Volleyball Nations League. On the other hand, there’s the pool to redeem themselves for their loss in Lille. the country were “forbidden” unless men were excluded entirely. One hundred and twenty matches and with the finalists of the last two World Pool play in the Finals wraps up on “We are not against female soccer at all, however, if the facilities 460 sets after that first Antonov service, Championships, Poland and Brazil Friday with Brazil facing Iran and USA are not ready, female soccer is considered haram (forbidden),” the VNL is down to its business end this (which the European side won on both entertaining Russia. These three-team Teungku Faisal Ali, vice-chairman of the Islamic clerical body week as the top teams of the world gather occasions in 2014 and 2018), alongside met this year in the Preliminary Phase, pools are always very tricky and, come in Aceh told AFP Tuesday. in Chicago for the Finals, with USA host- the sole representative of Asia in this with the South Americans prevailing in Friday, it could all well be decided with Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, is ing reigning Olympic champions Brazil, Final Six, Iran. four sets in Katowice. teams jostling for position to determine the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim nation Finals rookies Iran, defending champions In fact, it all kicks off with a rematch of The opening day also features the semifinal matchups. Or it could just as to officially practice Islamic Sharia law. Russia, 2018 silver medalists France and the last two World Championship finals, rematch of last year’s VNL semifinals, well come down to the very last point Indonesian sports authorities are attempting to revive the sport reigning world champions Poland. when Brazil and Poland face off in the with USA seeking revenge for their de- to see who actually goes through to the among women in the country by forming a national league, but USA, bronze medalists last time around Windy City’s Credit Union Arena 1 on feat. When the two teams met earlier medals round. the Ulema Council in Aceh called on the government to cancel in Lille, after going down in five sets to Wednesday. The two superpowers already this season, the Americans outplayed (Source: FIVB.org) the plan, citing the lack of facilities for female-only matches. The council said it should only be allowed if the province had a special stadium where only women players, match officials Kashima’s Oiwa fully focused on making history and spectators were present, arguing it would otherwise trigger public anger. Kashima Antlers head coach Go Oiwa has his sights set and the Emperor’s Cup on five occasions since 1993, it is “We demand the women’s league be postponed so the players on making history as the reigning champions close in on something of a surprise Kashima took so long to win their will not get a negative response from Aceh people,” Teungku said. their 2019 AFC Champions League quarter-final meeting maiden continental crown. Already in Aceh, some 30 enthusiastic women players have with two-time winners Guangzhou Evergrande next month. But, after bringing their AFC Champions League frus- participated in a selection trial, and a team is due to be picked No team has won consecutive titles since Saudi Arabia’s trations to an end last year with victory over Persepolis of shortly to represent the province in the national league. Al Ittihad managed the feat in 2004 and 2005, but Oiwa Iran in the final, Oiwa is now targeting a win that would Organisers said the players had complied with sharia regulation believes his team has the right mindset to be the first side establish Kashima among the most accomplished clubs in including wearing long-sleeved shirts and head-covering hijabs. in 14 years to achieve that momentous milestone. Asian football. “They dressed properly in Muslim attire and they played soc- “We are trying to win back-to-back AFC Champions League Al Ittihad are the sole team since the start of the AFC cer normally, they did not violate sharia law,” committee head titles and we are going into the matches with confidence,” Champions League era in 2002 to claim the title in con- Ishak Rizal told AFP. Oiwa told the-AFC.com. secutive years while only Guangzhou Evergrande, Urawa He said some young female players had trained for two years “We’ve changed some players, we have some young play- Red Diamonds and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors have won the their quest for a record third AFC Champions League title. and even participated in regional competitions where they had ers who have grown and gone to a higher level. I’m sure we trophy more than once since the competition’s inception. “Any time we have a game against a team from China won a trophy. can win the title again. That’s the feeling within the team, Standing in Kashima’s way of taking another step towards the away game is always tough,” says Oiwa, whose team Organisers were still trying to convince the clerics and that we have the power to do it.” joining that illustrious group of teams is a Guangzhou side travel to Tianhe Stadium on August 28 before hosting the the public that female soccer does not breach Islamic sharia For a club that has long been one of the dominant forces that will present not only a serious threat, but who are also return leg at Kashima Soccer Stadium on September 18. law, Rizal said. of Japanese football, winning a record eight J.League titles looking to make history of their own as they seek to keep alive (Source: the-afc) (Source: AFP) Prayer Times Noon:13:10 Evening: 20:43 Dawn: 4:13 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 5:57 (tomorrow) JULY 10, 2019 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 IRIB docudrama delves into [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 Jason Rezaian spy case www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. Tel: 88911433 By Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi Sabet Webmaster: [email protected] Printed at: Jame Jam Bartar Borna - 44197737 TEHRAN — The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has produced a series called “Gando”, which unfolds Tehrantimes79 Tehrantimesdaily the true story of the major espionage case of Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran bureau chief for the Washington Post. P.o. Box: 14155-4843 The last part of the 30-episode docudrama directed Zip Code: 1599814713 by Javad Afshar was aired Monday on IRIB Channel 3. Rezaian is introduced in the series by an intelligence agent, played by Dariush Farhand, as “one of the CIA’s top spies of the 21st century who can sabotage Iran’s economy and politics by thwarting the country’s efforts to annul Western sanctions.” In one of the scenes, Payam Dehkordi who stars as Rezaian also introduces himself as “a soft warfare general.” Rezaian was arrested in Iran in July 2014 and was convicted of espionage in a trial in 2015. On January GUIDE TO 16, 2016, he and three other U.S. citizens were released SPIRITUAL AWAKENING in exchange for the release of seven Iranians who were accused or convicted of sanctions violations. Beware, beware of sinfulness. By God, He The series faced some criticism from Iran’s Foreign Ministry, which has been portrayed as an uninformed, has veiled His servants’ guilt so much as if neutral and westernophile organization in the series. He has forgiven them. Imam Ali (AS) “What is portrayed about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and my colleagues is not firmly based on reality,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said during a press conference on Monday. Uzbekistan asks Iran for copy of “All the documents about the ministry’s talks and / Mohsen Atai correspondence on this case are available, and if they had asked, we would have given them the documents page from rare Quran for museum FARS to help the series seem much more realistic,” he added. ARTTEHRAN — Uzbekistan has asked Iran to give Writer Arash Qaderi contradicted Mousavi’s remarks Producer Mojtaba Amini (L) and director Javad Afshar attend a press conference in Tehran on July 9, 2019 deskthe country a copy of a page from the Baysunqur on Tuesday during a press conference attended by director to brief the media about the docudrama “Gando” on the espionage case of Jason Rezaian. Quran, a rare manuscript folio of the Holy Quran preserved at Afshar, producer Mojtaba Amini and several members the National Museum of Iran, for display in a museum. of the crew. from the documents.” Dehkordi said, “Our people are thirsty for honesty, The request was made by Uzbekistan Ambassador Bakhodir “The story of Jason’s case is exactly based on reality,” Producer Amini also announced his plan to make and every series that is fair in its message can foil Abdullaev in a meeting with Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic he noted. sequel to “Gando” and added, “Certain persons should dishonest persons.” Affairs Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini in Tehran, the Culture Ministry “We had the actual file on the case and we remained make adjustments in their functional roles to avoid Over 140 actors have collaborated in “Gando”, which announced on Tuesday. loyal to it, however, we did not intend to make a being the subject of ‘Gando’.” was shot on location in Iran, Turkey and China. A number documentary,” he added. “We received many kind and friendly messages and of Chinese and Turkish actors also played roles in the On his part, Afshar said, “A collection of documents calls from people that gave us energy, and many of them series that was produced under the auspices of the were given to the writer for use as a basis for the screenplay, wanted to know what will happen in the next season,” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of but the writer had to dramatize the information extracted he noted. other Iranian military organizations.

Iranian art festival receives Rudi Matthee’s “Pursuit of Pleasure” to nomination at Books for Peace Award come into spotlight at Tehran session

ARTTEHRAN — Iran’s ARTTEHRAN — A number deskArt for Peace Festival deskof Iranian literati will has received a nomination in the festival come together during a session at the section of the 3rd edition of the Books House of Writers in Tehran today to review Uzbekistan Ambassador Bakhodir Abdullaev (L) and for Peace Award in Rome, Italy, a public American historian Rudi Matthee’s “The Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mojtaba relations team for the festival announced Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants Hosseini meet in Tehran. (Honaronline/Mahdieh Babai) in a press release on Tuesday. in Iranian History, 1500-1900” translated Calligraphy and illumination for this edition of the Quran was The winners of the different sections into Persian by Mani Salehi-Allameh. commissioned by Baysunqur Mirza (1399-1433), the grandson of the event including poetry and novels Published in 2005 by Princeton of Timur (1336-1405), the Turkic ruler of Central Asia. will be announced during a ceremony on University Press, the book examines The ambassador said that he wants an Iranian calligrapher to September 14. both the intoxicants known since ancient inscribe a page from the copy of the Quran for future display in a The Books for Peace Award is dedicated times, wine and opiates, and the stimulants museum of Islamic civilization that his country plans to establish. to works promoting peace through introduced later, tobacco, coffee and tea, Hosseini said that his department would negotiate with culture and words, not only as a concept from multiple angles. the officials at the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts between nations at war, but also among It brings together production, Organization (CHTHO) for the inscription of a page from the folio. all individuals living in the world. commerce and consumption to reveal the He added that several other rare manuscripts of the Holy The Art for Peace Festival held every forces behind the spread and popularity of Quran are being preserved at other museums and institutions year in Tehran concerns world peace and these consumables, showing how Iranians across the country. environmental issues such as the water adapted them to their own needs and The ambassador also said that Iranian musicians are frequent crisis in the country. tastes, and integrated them into their visitors to Uzbek festivals, and added that several Iranian groups The festival showcases a variety of everyday lives. have been invited to perform at the Sharq Taronalari International artworks by Iranian and international artists Salehi-Allameh, scholars Ebrahim Music Festival taking place in Samarkand in August. in the media of painting, photo, sculpture, Musapur and Seyyed Saeid Mir-Mohammad- Front cover of a Persian version of Naghsh Ensemble from Iran participated in the festival in 2017. graphic design, installation, video art, cinema Sadeq are scheduled to deliver speeches A poster for the 6th Art for Peace Festival. American historian and Iranologist The Malek Museum and Library also keeps several pages of and theater to promote the culture of peace during the meeting, which will begin at 4 pm. Rudi Matthee’s book “The Pursuit of the rare manuscript of the Baysunqur Quran. and a world without violence. to peace with a medal every year. A Persian version of the book has Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in According to a study published by Columbia University in New The organizers also honor an individual The 7th edition of the festival will be recently been published by Namak Iranian History, 1500-1900”. York City, the Quran was first seen in modern times by traveler who has made a significant contribution held in Tehran during September. Publications in Tehran. James Baillie Fraser in Quchan during a tour of Khorasan in 1821-2. The pages had been taken to Quchan from Samarkand at the time of Nadir Shah’s occupation of the city in the 18th century. Part of the Translated books easier to publish in Iran: writer Quran had been placed in an imamzadeh in Quchan by a local Kurdish CULTURE TEHRAN — Veteran children’s book He also mentioned that children and young adults mostly ruler who had participated in the campaign against Samarkand. deskwriter Mahmud Barabadi has said that look for and follow science fiction and thrillers, and added, This imamzadeh was destroyed by an earthquake in 1895, the publication of translated books is much easier and more “Iranian writers are aware of children’s tastes but we have but before this time, Qajar king Nasser ad-Din Shah had visited economical for publishers in Iran compared to those authored only a few writers who write in these genres.” it and removed some of the pages to be placed in the library of by Iranian writers. In addition, Nader Qadyani, the director of Qadyani the Golestan Palace in Tehran. He made the remarks Monday during Sobh-o-Goftegu, Publications joined the program and said that Iranian In 1912 Prince Mohammad Hashem Afshar visited Quchan and an Iranian radio program. books had dominated the translation field at one time retrieved the remaining pages from the ruins, bringing some to “The books translated in Iran have been selected from during the 1980s and 1990s, but that gradually became Mashhad. Other pages and fragments are in Iranian and foreign among the international award-winning books. The academic the opposite case. collections, either brought from Samarkand at the time of its and educational books are much easier for the publishers “Topics for children’s books have not decreased but capture by Nadir Shah, taken from Quchan, or brought back as to publish, and due to the lack of copyright legalities in children’s book writers write less due to economic and souvenirs before Nadir Shah looted the city. Other pages are kept Iran, the publication of translated books are easier for the financial issues. In addition, publishers prefer to publish at the Astan Qods Library in Mashhad and the National Museum publishers in Iran,” he said. translated educational books,” Qadyani said. of Iran. The Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran and the National He also added that translated books enjoy a variety of “Most translated books are written based on world Library and Archives of Iran has also fragments of the Quran. topics, which attract more readers. famous animations and films, and these cause serious harm “Iranian writers write books inspired by the local and to children,” he said. cultural atmosphere and need to attract Iranian readers. He added that there are many good female writers in Stevie Wonder tells London concert Unfortunately, the great number of restrictions on Iranian Iran and asked the relevant organizations to help solve the writers in choosing topics, characters, and even the descriptions of events lead to failure in this field,” he asserted. problems of the publishers. he will have a kidney transplant

LONDON (Reuters) — Stevie Wonder told thousands of fans Shahr film festival announces Iranian lineup for watching him perform in London on Saturday night he is due to have a kidney transplant in September. The singer, songwriter and musician told the crowd at an intl. competition event in Hyde Park that he had a donor lined up, and was making ARTTEHRAN — Thirteen Iranian films will by Bahram Azimi, “This Way, That Way” by Lida Fazli and the announcement to avoid rumors spreading about his health. deskgo on screen in various sections of the “Mr. Deer” by Mojtaba Musavi. “I’m going to have surgery, I am going to have a kidney transplant international competition of the 7th Shahr International Over 30 movies from England, Japan, Poland, France, in September of this year,” he said as he finished his performance, Film Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday. Russia, Norway, the U.S. and several other countries will according to footage posted on Twitter by those at the concert. “Istanbul Junction” by Mostafa Kiai, “Sheeple” by Hooman also go on screen in the international competition. The sixty-nine year old, who has won more Grammy awards Seyyedi and “Andranik” by Hossein Mahkam will compete Earlier this week, the festival organizers also announced than any other artist and whose hits include “Superstitious”, “I in the feature film section while “Baharesan, the House of the national lineup that includes 18 movies. Just Called to Say I Love You” and “Isn’t She Lovely”, did not the Nation” by Babak Behdad and “All Mama’s Babies” by An exhibition of photos and paintings by 50 artists will also reveal what was behind him needing the transplant. Rezvan Sarmad will be screened in the documentary section. be held on the sidelines of the festival, which will take place “I’m all good, I’m all good, I’m all good. I have a donor it’s all The short film section features “Summer Snow” by Amin in Tehran from July 17 to 22 with the motto of “Responsible good,” he added after a supportive cheer from the crowd. Chadegani, “Short Wave” by Mohammad Esmaeili, “Like a Citizen, Healthy City”. “I want you to know I came here to give you my love and to Good Kid” by Arian Vazir-Daftari, “Absence” by Fatemeh The festival is organized every year under the auspices of thank you for your love, you ain’t got to hear no rumors about Zolfaqari and “I Wish I Were There” by Mehdi Nazerian. Tasvire Shahr Institute at the Art and Cultural Organization nothing, I told you what’s up, I’m good.” A scene from “Andranik” by Hossein Mahkam. The movies for animation section are “The Sixth String” of the Tehran Municipality.