WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13594 Sunday FEBRUARY 2, 2020 Bahman 13, 1398 Jumada Al thani 7, 1441 IRGC: Deal Iran, Ukraine jointly Persepolis cement place Fajr festival play reveals of the century analyzing downed in top with win over impacts of war on doomed to failure 2 plane’s black box 3 Sanat Naft 11 veterans’ families 12 Nearly 800 industrial, transport Arab League holds emergency projects to come on stream in 10 days TEHRAN — Iranian government is plan- of Transport and Urban Development. ning to inaugurate numerous industrial, According to Saied Zarandi, the deputy mining, and transport projects during the minister of industry, mining and trade, about Ten-Day Dawn which marks the 41st an- 500 trillion rials (about $11.9 billion) has been meeting over Trump plan niversary of the Islamic Revolution, IRNA invested in the mentioned industry ministry’s reported on Saturday. projects which are going to create jobs for over Palestine ‘cutting all ties’ with U.S. and Israel over Trump’s ‘deal of the century: Abbas As reported, the Industry, Mining and 22,400 people all over the country. Trade Ministry is scheduled to inaugu- According to the official, 10 major pro- rate 439 industrial and mining projects jects are also going to be commenced in See page 10 in the said ten-day period, while more the mentioned time span for which over than 360 transportation projects are also 85 trillion rials (about $2 billion) of in- expected to be inaugurated by the Ministry vestment is required. 4 Nearly 2000 more candidates eligible to run for parliament TEHRAN — Guardian Council spokesman Those who were announced to be dis- Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei said on Saturday that qualified can file a complaint,” he told a number of candidates eligible to contest press conference. the parliamentary elections may increase, The elections for the 290-seat parlia- announcing that the competence of nearly ment will be held on February 21. 2000 more candidates have been confirmed “The Guardian Council will do its duty by the council. and we are sensitive toward studying Kadkhodaei said the Guardian Council qualifications,” Kadkhodaei pointed out. has started studying the qualification of The spokesman added the duty of the those rejected in the first screening stage. Guardian Council is to properly monitor “Today, we entered the second phase of the election rather than creating an at- studying qualification of the candidates. mosphere for an “enthusiastic election”. Army has the fifth most powerful ground force in the world: commander TEHRAN — According to military experts in recent years to enhance the defense the Iranian army has the fifth most pow- capabilities of its armed forces, testing erful ground force in the world, Chief of modern military tactics and state-of-the- the Army Ground Force said on Saturday. art equipment. Iran’s Ground Force is the 5th most In November 2019, the ground force powerful ground force in the world,” Brig- staged large-scale military drills, codenamed adier General Kiomars Heidari said as he “Zolfaghar-e-Velayat”, in northwest Iran to boost thetop10news.com visited a military training center in Tehran. the combat readiness of its units. It covered a Iran has conducted major military drills vast strategic area in the region. 3 EDITORIAL Europe and the JCPOA: inactivity and errors ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi However, in May 2018 there was a disrup- 37 of the JCPA ends by saying: “Iran has declared Ebrahim Fallahi Tehran Times editor-in-chief By Lupicinio Rodriguez and J. L. Iriarte tive overturn. The United States unilaterally that, if sanctions are re-established in whole or in Tehran Times journalist @ghaderi62 On 14 January, France, Britain, and Germany reintroduced its sanctions, which also had a part, it will consider this as a reason to fail to fulfill launched the dispute settlement mechanism pro- strong component of Secondary Sanctions, as its commitments under the IPAP in its entirety vided for in paragraphs 36 and 37 of the Joint they severely affected people and operations or partly.” And that was precisely what it did; in Only as a record in Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which in not linked to North America. In the face of this May 2019, a year after the reintroduction of U.S. Coronavirus history: Read with July 2015 lifted the sanctions that were imposed worrying behavior, the European Union merely sanctions, Iran began to gradually reduce compli- on Iran due to its nuclear program. updated its blocking status to better protect EU ance with its obligations under the JCPA, so that spreading open eyes to know It is worth recalling briefly how we have come operators from the extraterritorial effects of U.S. every two months it took a step in this direction to this situation. Until May 2018, the JCPOA sanctions, but it really did nothing else and, in until 5 January 2020 when Iran has suspended its pessimism across more! worked reasonably well: sanctions on Iran were this way, passed the opportunity to have acted JCPA commitments. This means that European lifted, and Iran, for its part, scrupulously fulfilled more directly and effectively. It should have raised countries have had two years to make it clear that oil markets its obligations. ollowing unprecedented pressure a determined opposition to the Trump Admin- the United States was the one who had begun to It is true that during this phase the U.S. placed istration, making it clear that the initial breach disregard and consequently managed to reverse ears over the spread of the Corona- against the Iranian nation in recent constant obstacles to financial transactions and the decades, the West is trying to illus- of the IAC had been on the part of the United the situation through all the mechanisms at their virus continue to overshadow the F EU financial authorities and institutions pandered States and it should have revealed a position of disposal (sanctions, threats, pressures and military oil market as the number of people trate Iran as a peace-threatening abnor- to U.S. pressures. However, there was a reasonable F mal country and the U.S. as a pro-peace clear support for Iran. The EU didn’t, and let the action, etc.). Of course, the U.S.A, and partly the sickened by the virus has exceeded 10,000 flow of business transactions and some investments situation deteriorate completely. EU, has constantly disregarded the social calamity globally and the death toll in China has and security government to deceive the emerged, some of which were substantial. public opinion via their propagandistic In this regard, we cannot forget that paragraph caused by its action. 4 passed over 200. media empire. Oil prices have plunged more than 21 This article has listed only a few exam- percent from their highest in early Jan- ples via which the audience can find out “Deal of Century” is neo-imperial attempt: Adib-Moghaddam uary, to mark the worst start of the year a series of realities to be immune against in almost three decades. ill-wishers’ intention of dodging him or her. By Javad Heirannia that departed from a pro-Palestinian stance a As such their actions are affected by those fac- Following the fast spread of the virus, Iran has not waged war against any TEHRAN — Professor Arshin Adib-Moghadd- long time ago, opting to cow tail to Israel instead, tors, rather than a real concern for national the World Health Organization has de- country in the last two centuries, while in am, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at against what is perceived to be their bigger threat, interest or the citizenry that voted them into clared the virus a public health emergency the mentioned period of time the coun- the London Middle East Institute believes that i.e. Iran.” power. Their personal travails, and the legal and that too has added fuel to the fire try has been one of the largest victims of “Trump and Netanyahu have to be analyzed as Here is the full text of the interview. repercussions are good examples, and as you of worrisome in the markets all around foreign aggressions, terrorism, chemical a part of a global right-wing coterie that shares a Trump and Netanyahu unveiled the deal rightly indicate, they are quiet willing to subdue the world. weapons, severe economic sanctions and highly divisive and hegemonic world-view, and of the century at the same time as Senate is im- everything else for their personal agenda. So, Although uncertainty about the continuous military threats. is tied into a corrupt and equally transnational, peaching Trump and Netanyahu is Israel’s first yes, this capitulation plan for the Palestinians severity and duration of the virus The U.S., as the main country which aggressive capitalist dynamic.” prime minister to received three indictments is also meant to distract from the legal cases outbreak makes it impossible to es- has always been accusing Iran of being Professor in Global Thought and Comparative against him. Did the timing of this unveiling have against them, and to make them appear as timate its real impact on the global an abnormal nation, only has 241 years Philosophies also adds that “This capitulation anything to do with this issue? “normal” statesmen, which they are not. economy in long term, however, the of independent history. The U.S. has plan for the Palestinians is a neo-imperial attempt A: Trump and Netanyahu have to be ana- The deal of the century was designed with- psychological impacts combined with been involved in different wars during to push for a final settlement that will make a lyzed as a part of a global right-wing coterie out the Palestinian side’s consultation and was the short-term hit to the transpor- 93 percent of its history (222 years).