WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13529 Saturday NOVEMBER 16, 2019 Aban 25, 1398 Rabi’ Al awwal 18, 1441 Daesh relocating Iran able to add Iran’s Beiranvand Iranian cultural to Afghanistan 20,000 SWUs in nominated for the AFC festival opens in 2 a month 2 Player of the Year 15 Bratislava 16 Govt. starts gasoline rationing, raises fuel prices TEHRAN – The Iranian government of the Planning and Budget Organiza- started on Friday rationing of subsidized tion, said on Thursday that proceeds gasoline and increased fuel prices as it from the price hikes would be used to plans to use the revenue for supporting fund additional subsidies for 18 million underprivileged families. underprivileged families, or about 60 Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, head million people. 5 See page 2 Iran seeks unity in the region, Rouhani tells Islamic unity forum Elimination TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani He highlighted great importance to fol- said on Friday that Iran seeks “brother- lowing the Prophet to counter aggressions hood” and “unity” in the region and that of the United States, the Zionist regime of the Islamic Republic does not seek to Israel and regional reactionary countries. invade any country or act like an empire. The Prophet brought a modern civiliza- “The main privilege for us is following tion for the world with his miracles of the of Israel the Prophet. We do not seek to conquer Book, wisdom, ethics and politics, he said. any land or be like an empire. What we Elsewhere, Rouhani said, “Our influ- want in the region is brotherhood and ence in the region is not because of our unity,” he told participants at the Islamic military and scientific capabilities and doesn’t mean Unity Conference. our strategic geographical status. 2 Lebanon’s Safadi emerges as PM choice Constitutionally required parliamentary Safadi, a business tycoon and political consultations to name a prime minister will mainstay, represented his native Tripoli removing Jews be held Monday, after which Mohammad in Parliament from 2000 till 2018. Safadi will be designated, caretaker Foreign He was also a Cabinet minister contin- Minister Gebran Bassil told MTV Friday. uously from 2005 until 2014, holding the ‘Elimination of Israel Parliamentary “consultations are sup- Finance, Economy and Trade, and Public posed to start Monday, after which Safadi Works and Transportation portfolios. will be named [premier]. Otherwise, we The last government collapsed on Oct. 29 means throwing out thugs will go stay [in negotiations] awaiting the amid mass protests demanding the removal agreement on a prime minister to name,” of the entire political class. Protesters have like Netanyahu’ Bassil said. reacted negatively to news that Safadi would The Free Patriotic Movement, which be named prime minister. Taking to the Bassil heads, along with the Future Move- streets since Oct. 17, protesters have been khamenei.ir ment, the Amal Movement and Hezbollah demanding the formation of a technocratic agreed Thursday night on naming Safadi. government instead. 13 EDITORIAL The Islamic Republic has been promoting unity for forty years: Marzieh Hashemi PERSPECTIVE Mohammad Ghaderi TEHRAN — Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi What’s the significance of the Interna- promised to us and there’s no way that we Hanif Ghaffari Tehran Times editor-in-chief says the number of Islamic unity conferences held tional Islamic Unity Conference and how can can be defeated. The defeat will only come Head of the Tehran Times @ghaderi62 by the Islamic Republic of Iran demonstrates this event promote unity between Sunni and if we allow others to divide us. Whether it’s Politics Desk that Iran has been stressing the importance of Shia Muslims? dealing with ethnicities or nationalities, we unity from the very beginning. A: I think the International Islamic Unity know that as Muslims we must be above that When the U.S. “We have enemies who are trying to say that Conference is very important and of course and that Islam is our priority. Inshallah we Consequences of the Iran is a divisive entity, but the facts speak way we’ve been seeing it take place for years now. will be able to be even more united and In- smells out oil in beyond that and what Iran is doing,” she told the It is important that we continue to stress that shallah we will have the ultimate victory. Trump coup in Bolivia Tehran Times on the sidelines of the International sense of commonness between the Sunnis Some countries say Iran is a divisive enti- Lebanon: New Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Thursday. and the Shias and that Islam is what’s im- ty that divides Muslims by following sectarian he recent US government coup in Bo- destination for oil Ms. Hashemi, who converted to Islam in the portant. We have to make sure that we’re policies. What’s your thought? livia will have severe consequences for aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, also said the strong and that we’re united and that we A: What we have seen in the forty-year his- TWashington and its allies. This coup will most important way to overcome Islamophobia stand together, especially during these times tory of the Islamic Republic, from the Islamic not only weaken socialism and anti-imperial- robbery in Western countries is through person-to-person that the enemies are trying to divide us. If Revolution on, is the opposite of that. We have ism in Central America and South America, contact between Muslims and non-Muslims. we stand together, with the population that seen policies coming out of Iran that definitely but will also strengthen the opposition of the review of the protests and political The transcript of the interview is presented below: we have in our Islamic Ummah, victory is encourage unity. 3 United States in Latin America. upheavals in Lebanon coupled with The presence of White House opponents A a pretension by officials in Wash- in the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and ington that the U.S. is concerned about Donald A. Brown receives 2019 UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science Nicaragua has led White House officials to the situation in Lebanon send important officially name them the “Triangle of Evil” The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azou- compelling argument that limiting carbon attended by Ambassador Ahmad Jalali, Perma- messages. and to refrain from any direct confrontation lay, on Friday awarded the 2019 edition of the emissions and mitigating climate change is nent Delegate of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Developments in Lebanon appear to with these governments and their people. UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science to the ethical imperative of our time resonates UNESCO whose country initiated the establish- have entered a new phase, especially as Trump’s continued effort to overthrow Professor Donald A. Brown, Scholar in Residence widely in the current discourse on climate ment of the Prize in 2003. the Lebanese Energy and Water Minister Maduro’s government in Caracas is an for Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener change. The UNESCO Avicenna Prize is named after Neda Boustani has announced the start of indication of this fact. However, the recent University Commonwealth Law School (USA). An independent international jury, com- the renowned 11th century physician and phi- drilling the country’s first oil well in the victory of Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the This year’s Avicenna Prize, its 5th edition, was posed of three members of UNESCO’s World losopher of Persian origin known in Europe as waters off the coast of Beirut later this year. victory of Fernandez, an anti-American dedicated to the ethics of the environment. Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowl- Avicenna (980-1038). A healer and humanist, The oil well is to be drilled in the Medi- left-wing candidate in Argentina’s general Professor Brown is a world-renowned expert edge and Technology (COMEST), unanimously Avicenna developed an exemplary holistic ap- terranean 30 kilometers from the Lebanese election, shocked the White House. These in environmental science and more specifically recommended the laureate for his sound scien- proach that captures the essence of ethics in capital in the north. About a year and a half were indicative of Trump’s total failure in the international climate change ethics move- tific contribution to the ethics of science and science and has thus come to serve as a source ago, Lebanon awarded its first offshore to deal with anti-imperialist currents in ment. His book Climate Change Ethics: Navi- technology, particularly the ethics of climate of inspiration for the promotion of this concern, gas and oil exploration and production Latin America. The US president, who gating the Perfect Moral Storm (2013) provides change and environmental sustainability, his which is of central importance to UNESCO. It agreements to a consortium of France’s has been contemplating the collapse of an influential analysis of why ethical principles unique qualities as a scientist, environmental rewards the activities of individuals or groups Total, Italy’s Eni and Russia’s Novatek the Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan have been neglected and how to include them lawyer, climate change educator, activist and in the field of ethics in science with the gold for two blocks out of ten. governments since his inauguration, has in the climate change conversation. opinion-leader, and his lifetime commitment Avicenna Medal, a certificate, and the sum of Ten oil blocks have been identified in not only achieved this goal but has wit- He has sought to ensure that applied ethics to, and outstanding impact on the ethics of $50,000 as well as a one-week academic visit the coastal waters of Lebanon with an nessed the spread of American opposition is central to climate change policy develop- climate change science and policy-making.