WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 20,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13226 Tuesday OCTOBER 9, 2018 Mehr 17, 1397 Muharram 29, 1440 Tehran seeks close Saudi Arabia likely Iranian athletes win Iranian cities to interaction murdered “Jamal seven more gold at host festival of with Eurasia 2 Khashoggi”: Askari 7 Asian Para Games 15 European films 16 Indian companies to ship in Iranian oil in November ECONOMY TEHRAN — India’s Oil India, the world’s third-biggest oil ICJ starts hearing deskMinister Dharmendra importer, will buy nine million barrels of Pradhan said on Monday that two Indian Iranian oil in November, Reuters reported companies have placed orders to buy Iranian on Friday, citing two industry sources. oil in November, Reuters reported. “Refiners have placed November nom- “India does not yet know if it will be inations to lift 1.25 million tons (about granted a waiver from U.S. sanctions on 9 million barrels) of oil from Iran,” the Iran’s copmlaint Iran”, the official added. Friday report said. 4 Rouhani set to name four See page 2 new ministers against U.S. POLITICS TEHRAN — President industry, mining and trade; Ali-Akbar deskHassan Rouhani is ex- Haj-Mohammadi as minister of transport pected to introduce four new candidates and urban development; and Mohammad to lead the ministries of industry, trans- Shariatmadari as minister of labor and port and urban development, labor, and social welfare. economy to the parliament on Tuesday. Dejpasand has a PhD in economy According to a report posted on ILNA from Azad University and is currently an website on Monday, Farhad Dejpasand associate professor at Shahid Beheshti is expected to be named as minister of University’s School of Economics and economy; Reza Veyseh as minister of Political Sciences. 2 Iranian ambassador meets new Iraqi president POLITICS TEHRAN — Iraj On October 2, Iraq’s parliament elect- deskMasjedi, the Iranian ed Salih as new president. Salih, of the ambassador to Baghdad, held talks on Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 220 Sunday with Barham Salih, the newly votes out of the 273 lawmakers who were elected Iraqi president. present in the parliament. Masjedi extended Iranian President He was among 20 candidates for Hassan Rouhani’s congratulation to Salih. the post, including one from the rival Ambassador Masjedi said Iraq is a Kurdistan Democratic Party. The two powerful country that will overcome parties have dominated Kurdish politics File photo difficulties. for decades. 2 EDITORIAL Most Middle East dictators owe their power to Western patrons: Jahanpour ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi to know if they have a popular base or not.” backed by foreign powers so long as they served Syed Zafar Mehdi Tehran Times editor-in-chief EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Journalist By Javad Heirannia Following is the full text of the interview: the interest of the big powers, and once they had @ghaderi62 Speaking at a rally in Mississippi a few outlived their usefulness they were dropped. from New Delhi TEHRAN — Professor Farhang Jahanpour, days ago, President Trump humiliated Saudi At one time, Taliban leaders were entertained part-time tutor on Middle Eastern affairs in King Salman by saying: “King – we’re pro- in Texas and were received by senior US officials The new unbearable the Department of Continuing Education, tecting you – you might not be there for two because the United States was hoping to build a 17 years of University of Oxford, and a member of Kel- weeks without us – you have to pay for your pipeline between Turkmenistan and Pakistan to crime of the Saudis logg College says that current Middle Eastern military.” Why is he humiliating his close ally transport gas. However, when that plan did not America’s disastrous leaders who serve Western interests, while at this time? materialise and when the Taliban gave shelter to urkish officials speaking to The lacking legitimacy in the eyes of their own A: What President Trump said is mere common Osama bin Laden they were attacked and toppled. Afghanistan venture Washington Post and Reuters people. However, once they are not needed sense. He has a habit of speaking bluntly, and At another time, Saddam Hussein was an n Sunday, the protracted war in Ton Saturday said that promi- any more or act against Western interests this is a very blunt warning to the Saudi king. A American ally and was visited by Donald Rums- Afghanistan completed 17 years. nent Saudi journalist-turned-critic they will be toppled. very important fact that most leaders in the third feld as the special envoy of President Reagan, It was on October 7, 2001 the U.S. Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Former Senior Research Scholar at Harvard world who are reliant on a major power forget is and he was provided with intelligence to attack O government and its allies launched the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul adds that “Most Middle East dictators owe their that they are not courted because they are liked Iranian forces during the Iran-Iraq war, even with so-called ‘Operation Freedom’ appar- this week. power to their Western patrons, because they or because of their great qualities, but because chemical weapons. However, when his policies ently to topple the Taliban regime in Khashoggi has been missing since have no popular base, or at least they have not they serve the interest of big powers. This has diverged from US policies, Iraq was invaded and Kabul, following the 9/11 attacks. Yet he entered the consulate in Istanbul been elected to their current positions of power the story of all former leaders who were strongly he was toppled and executed. 7 on Tuesday. “Based on their initial 17 years later, America’s longest war findings, the police believe that the still grinds on, despite more than $2 journalist was killed by a team espe- ‘India to continue with Iranian oil imports despite U.S. sanctions’ trillion investment and thousands of cially sent to Istanbul and who left the casualties. INTERNATIONAL TEHRAN—In a significant “Iran has been off-and-on taking rupee pay- such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela. same day,” the government source said. Bearing testimony to America’s dis- deskdevelopment that is likely ments for oil it sells. This rupee it uses for paying These developments are seen as a rebuff to The Washington Post columnist astrous venture in Afghanistan, in the 24 to raise eyebrows in Washington, two major for imports of medicines and other commodities. Trump’s administration call to countries to com- was known as a sharp critic of crown hours corresponding with the 17th anni- Indian oil companies have placed orders to A similar arrangement is in works,” a source told pletely cut oil trade with the Islamic Republic prince Mohammad Bin Salma, and versary of its invasion, at least 54 people import Iranian crude next month, in defiance PTI, adding details of the payment mechanism of Iran. U.S. sanctions against Iran’s crude oil criticized his domestic and regional were killed across the war-ravaged country, of U.S. sanctions. would emerge in the next few weeks. exports come into force from November 4, so measures. There are some points in including 35 Afghan security forces and Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Mr. Pradhan further said that the country Washington has been ratcheting pressure, but this regard that should be taken into 19 civilians. It is a grim reminder that speaking at an event titled ‘The Energy Forum’ in was considering evolving a different payment to no avail. considerations: the war has only got deadlier with time New Delhi on Monday, reaffirmed India’s com- system to import Iran’s oil and that it could pay Trump administration has failed to garner 1- As expected, European officials, and the Taliban has managed to reinvent mitment to bolster oil trade with Iran, saying New using Indian rupees, in an attempt to dump the international support against the Iran deal, who along with the United States, are itself, belying tall claims of the U.S. gen- Delhi did not know whether it would receive a U.S. dollar. which Tehran has continued to abide by even among Saudi Arabia’s main arms-sup- erals that the insurgency was waning in waiver from U.S. sanctions. Earlier this week, a report in Economic Times after the unilateral withdrawal of the U.S. Last porters, have avoided to take any ex- Afghanistan. On Friday, India’s state-run news agency PTI said, citing a government official familiar with month, the EU announced that China, France, plicit, formal, and serious stance on It started a few weeks after the quoted sources to report Indian Oil Corp (IOC) the situation, that the Reserve Bank of India and Germany, Russia and the U.K. would develop an the missing of the Saudi journalist. 9/11 attacks when the George Bush and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd Ministry of Finance had been tasked with explor- alternative payment system to skirt the U.S. and Al-Saud’s petrodollars in the accounts administration launched the so-called (MRPL) have contracted 1.25 million tonnes of ing the viability of rupee and barter-based trade continue doing business with Iran. India seems of European governments have caused ‘Global War on Terror’. Bush’s defense Iranian oil for import in November. agreements with crude oil producing nations to be following the suit. them to remain silent at this time in 6 secretary Donald Rumsfeld, flanked by spite of Saudi family’s obvious crimes.