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.13228 Thursday OCTOBER 11, 2018 Mehr 19, 1397 Safar 1, 1440 Tehran calls on OPCW Soleimani offers Iran move up to 2018 Iranian games not to politicize condolences over passing of Asian Para Games nominated for Intl. Syrian issue 2 Imad Mughniyeh’s mother 2 third place 15 Mobile Gaming Awards 16 See page 2 Iran’s renewable power plants to export electricity ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran’s re- providers has been discussed and the desknewable power plants ministry will provide the capable plants are going to be granted necessary licenses the necessary infrastructure,” the min- and facilities to be able to export electric- ister said on Tuesday on the sidelines of ity to the neighboring countries, IRNA Iran’s 3rd Renewable Energy Conference reported quoting Energy Minister Reza in Tehran. Ardakanian. “The Ministry will charge the private “The instructions for electricity exports sector for power transit through its net- through the private sector’s renewable works,” Ardakanian asserted. 4 ‘Suicide cars found on the roads to Tehran during Muharram’ POLITICS TEHRAN — Morteza grandson of Prophet Muhammad. deskMirian, director of the Mirian said the conspiracies included IRGC Ground Force Operations, has said suicide car bombs trying to enter the capital more than a thousand conspiracies aimed from eastern and western Iran, adding at disturbing Tehran’s security in the month that all of the attempts were foiled, Mehr of Muharram (Sept. 11-Oct. 9) were foiled. reported on Wednesday. During the Muharram rituals, which He further said the enemy is des- reach their climax on Sept. 11-12, millions perately seeking to create insecurity of Muslims commemorate martyrdom in regional countries, especially the anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the Islamic Republic. 210 top managers subject to Police hosts retirees’ employment ban POLITICS TEHRAN – The head the law must be replaced by November 17. deskof Iran’s Administra- He said the law includes mayors who are Majid Asgaripour tive and Recruitment Affairs Organiza- elected by city councilors as well. tion (ARAO) has said 210 top government He further said that under the law the managers, excluding those working in the retirees can work in the Armed Forces with Intelligence Ministry and the Armed Forc- permission from the commander-in-chief, es, are subject to the newly passed law on ILNA reported on Wednesday.He added prohibition of the employment of retirees. managers in the Intelligence Ministry only Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ foreign diplomats Jamshid Ansari said those subject to account for one percent of the individuals. EDITORIAL Hezbollah legend’s mother, Imad Mughniyeh, laid to rest ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi By staff& agencies raid on Syria’s Quneitra in January 2015. Syed Zafar Mehdi Tehran Times editor-in-chief The mother of martyrs, who has been widely known Gen. Soleimani offers condolences Journalist from New Delhi @ghaderi62 for her patience and power, died Monday and laid Iranian Quds Force’s Commander Ghasem to rest on Tuesday (October 9), near Hajj Radwan Soleimani has expressed sympathy and condo- (Imad Mughniyeh)’s grave in the Rawdat al-Shahid- lences to the Secretary General of Hezbollah Saudi looking ain cemetery in Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahiyeh. Seyed Hassan Nasrollah over passing of the Global media and Hajjeh Amina Salemeh is the mother of late late Imad Mughniyeh’s mother. In a letter to horrific given the Hezbollah senior commander who was assassi- Nasrollah, Soleimani wrote that Hajjeh Amina Muslims: Selective nated in February 12, 2008 in a car bomb attack Salemeh, who was the mother of Mughniyah Khashoggi affair orchestrated by Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. brothers should be remembered as “the mother coverage, selective Mughniyeh, whose nom de guerre was Radwan, of Hezbollah”. audi Arabia has seen large-scale do- was one of the main founders of Hezbollah in “Martyr Mughniyah’s mother was a legend- outrage mestic developments since King Sal- the 1980s. He has been described as “a brilliant Hajje Amina Salemeh is not only the mother ary woman who defended Islam, Lebanon and man came to power, and then along If you prick us, do we not bleed? If S military tactician and very elusive”. of Hajj Radwan. She is a mother of two other the Resistance axis,” he said, adding that Hajj- came Mohammad bin Salman with his you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you Hezbollah Secretary General, Seyed Hassan martyrs Fuad and Jihad Mughniyeh who were eh Amina Salemeh was not just the mother of radical views. Since then there has been poison us, do we not die? William Nasrollah, often calls Hajj Radwan as the “Com- martyred among the ranks of Lebanese resistance Mughniyeh brothers, but she was the mother of “ slaughter and arrests and imprisonment of Shakespeare’s lines in The Merchant of mander of the Two Victories,” referring to victories against Israeli occupation. Salemeh is also the all Lebanese martyrs. dissident opponents. Riyadh rulers don’t Venice hold true today. achieved by the Lebanese resistance: liberation of grandmother of Jihad Imad Mughniyeh, son of Hajjeh Amina Salemeh passed away on Mon- tolerate the slightest criticisms. On the gloomy morning of March 22 Lebanon’s south in 2000 and July war in 2006. Hajj Radwan who was martyred during an Israeli day at the age of 80. Critics are seen as traitors by Saudi media 2016, Brussels, the capital city of Belgium and usually the international community and a major European tourist attraction, does not pay attention to their fate consid- experienced a series of bombings, killing ering Saudi’s financial influence, and while Nikki Haley calls it quits, Twitter says ‘good riddance’ at least 31 people. Like the devastating No- Donald Trump continues humiliate Saudi By Syed Zafar Mehdi her eyes on the Oval office, observers believe her a “fraud”, another Twitter user Betsy Hoff- vember 2015 Paris attacks, which claimed rulers, Mohammed bin Salman still speaks TEHRAN — The ‘smart and cunning’ U.S. envoy there is still time till 2020 and circumstances man said she “lost all credibility” when she 130 lives, Brussels attack provoked un- of friendship with the U.S. president. to the UN Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday that might force her to change her mind and run praised Jared and Ivanka, adding that the precedented levels of public outrage and Regarding remarks by Trump in which she will be stepping down from her chair at the end for the top office. Some reports even suggest Trump-Haley duo had “ruined our standing in media coverage that went well beyond the U.S. president said he had warned the of the year, a decision that has generated palpable that Haley was behind the New York Times the world”. Pertinently, after resigning from her the tragic event. king he would not last in power “for two buzz in the political circles and over social media. ‘anonymous column’ that shook the White UN post, Haley called Jared Kusher “Trump’s Lengthy newspaper editorials were weeks” without U.S. military support, Saudi While political pundits believe the daughter House and exposed the dirty underbelly of hidden genius”, which drew scornful laughter dedicated to Paris and Brussels and ‘se- Arabia’s Crown Prince said in a Bloomberg of Indian immigrants and the former governor of American politics. from Twitter users. curity analysts’ appeared on prime news interview published on Friday : “I love South Carolina had ‘timed’ her decision perfectly, Meanwhile, her resignation has generated tre- A Twitter user Ras Mubarak termed her “one TV shows to discuss state security and working with him. You know, you have according to reports, Haley had a clash with national mendous buzz on Twitter, with Twitterati weigh- of the hawks in Trump administration”, and said perceived threat of Syrian and Afghan to accept that any friend will say good security advisor John Bolton before calling it quits. ing the pros and cons of her decision. While some her place was not in the UN. “Good riddance. refugees. things and bad things. You cannot have Interestingly, her resignation came a day Twitter users saw her challenging Donald Trump Embarrassment to public diplomacy,” he wrote. This is not to suggest that the mind- friends always saying good things about after an ethics watchdog called for an inves- in the 20120 presidential polls, some others believe Another Twitter user Kamesha Williams said less bloodletting in Paris or Brussels or you, even in your own family. You will tigation into her acceptance of free flights on that her ‘horrible’ stint as the US envoy to UN has Haley wasn’t “the golden woman”. “She stood Manchester or Madrid should not provoke have some misunderstandings. We put private jets. left a deep stain on her political career. by as Trump put babies in cages. She is an op- outrage or it should not be discussed in criticisms in that category.” Although she refuted reports that she has set While a Twitter user Laura Guerrero called portunist,” she tweeted. 6 the mainstream corporate media. But, One critic has been Jamal Khashoggi. why does the media – in the west or east Born in Medina in 1958, Khashoggi is one – focus so heavily on these attacks when of the most prominent Saudi and Arab equally deadly, equally ghastly attacks journalists and political commentators 200 tons of occur in places like Kabul, Baghdad, Beirut, of his generation. He began his career as a Ankara, Quetta, Tehran, Kenya, Yemen? correspondent for the Saudi Gazette and medicine, medical What does this selective coverage and se- as an adviser to a powerful Saudi prince, lective outrage say about the corporate Faisal bin Turki (the former chief of Saudi equipment sent news media? Arabia’s intelligence services).