WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 39th year No.13190 Saturday AUGUST 25, 2018 Shahrivar 3, 1397 Dhul Hijjah 13, 1439 Zarif hopes 10,000 U.S. troops Iran’s gold medal Tehran puppet theater ICJ would rule in within range of Iran’s count at Asiad rises festival kicks off with favor of Iran 2 missiles, cleric warns 2 to 12 15 hopes for world peace 16 Japan to strengthen trade ties with Iran: Keidanren chairman ECONOMY TEHRAN — Hiroaki culture and old history. Never humiliate deskNakanishi, the chair- The Iranian ambassador for his part, man of Keidanren (Japan Business Fed- referred to the two countries’ warm eration), voiced his country’s readiness relations during the recent years and for boosting trade ties with Iran, IRNA named Keidanren a good opportunity See page 2 reported on Thursday. for expansion of bilateral ties between In a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador Iran and Japan. to Japan Morteza Rahmani Movahed, Na- He also underscored Iran’s capabilities an Iranian! kanishi underlined the significant role in the region and its important role in sup- of Iran for Japan both in economy and plying energy to the world and expressed the Qassemi: ‘EU’s 18 million euro energy sectors and called the Middle-East country’s tendency for continuing ties with aid not related to package to country a respectable one due to its rich the Japanese business federation. 4 save nuclear deal’ Leader appoints new IRGC commanders POLITICS TEHRAN – Leader of of its forces, Mehr reported. deskthe Islamic Revolution He also thanked the outgoing Rear Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday ap- Admiral Ali Fadavi for his sincere efforts pointed Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri towards the promotion of the IRGC’s na- as the new commander of the Islamic val forces. Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy. In a separate decree, Ayatollah Khame- In a decree, the Leader urged Tangsiri to nei appointed Fadavi as the IRGC’s deputy strengthen the infrastructure of the IRGC coordinator at the proposal of IRGC Chief Navy and boost the combat preparedness Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari. Saudi regime strike kills 31 civilians, mostly children, in Yemen At least 31 civilians, mostly children, have person of the country’s Health Ministry, been killed after a Saudi regime-led air- reported that all the victims, whose vehicle strike hit their vehicle in Yemen’s Hu- was also destroyed in the strike in Durayhimi daydah province, only two weeks after a city on Thursday, were internally displaced strike by the invading military coalition hit people. Al-Masirah, citing local sources, had a school bus in the impoverished country reported earlier that at least 22 children and and killed scores of Yemeni children. four women lost their lives in the deadly File photo Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah sat- strike, adding that all those on board the ellite television network, citing a spokes- vehicle were killed. 13 ARTICLE Shameful history of the Munafiqeen ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari Martin Love By Ali Rajabi sure that no officers were around. I immediate- Political analyst TEHRAN — “Our mission was to attack the ly gave the clue that we prepared our weapons Political analyst from buses and set them on fire. The unit I was re- from both sides simultaneously. We were close to North Carolina sponsible for carried out four operations. One him, I fired the first shot followed by the second, of these buses got blocked on the street. Our it struck him in the head, but because it was a What is the fate of armed men poured gasoline all over the bus, silent pistol, I did not hear the shots and fired Geopolitical lit it with passengers still inside and quickly a few more. After me, Reza went on a shooting Donald Trump? escaped the scene.” rampage. Then, I ran and fired bullets in the air and economic These are only part of the confessions to get the people out of the way. We were told if ecently, the controversial results of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) or better someone wanted to grab us, we were allowed to transitions are of polls conducted on Trump’s said Munafiqeen; a terrorist organization, gun them down.” These are part of the narrative nothing but painful Rpopularity have been published which claimed to save Iranian people, but of one of the terrorists who describes the story in the United States. Some of these behind August 23, 1998. turned out to be a sworn enemy of Iran. They August 23, 1998 and Lajevardi’s ho knows what the real numbers polls were conducted all over the Unit- invaded Iran alongside Saddam Ba’ath Par- assassination The Munafiqeen, holding grudges against the ed States, and since they were based are, but it’s been estimated that ty, bonded with Saudi Arabia, spied for the “Since we wanted our work to look flawless and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tehran in the 60’s, on “public votes”, their results can’t since the end of World War 2 Zionist regime, and lobbies with the U.S. much better than the previous teams, we bought assassinated Assadullah Lajevardi, who was no W be that much trusted. However, in the U.S. has been responsible, one way officials to impose more sanctions on the a mirror from his next door shop and noticed longer holding any government or judicial posts, some polls that were based the U.S. or another, for the demise of some 25 people in Iran. he was in his usual place. We made absolutely in Tehran Grand Bazaar. 7 Electoral College structure, we can million souls across the planet – many make a more accurate estimation of of them innocent, who were victimized by Donald Trump’s condition. the overweening insistence that the U.S. Business Insider has cited the NBC The passivity of UN against Zionist aggressions is deadly grab or maintain military or economic and Marist survey in one of its recent By Ramin Hossein Abadin address the issue. ritories aimed at providing conditions protective hegemony by damaging potential rivals. articles. The polls results indicate TEHRAN — UN Secretary General António Gu- The provisions of Guterres’’s plan to support of Palestinian civilians. There is nothing at all novel about that in some important states such as terres recently proposed a plan to protect Pales- the Palestinians are as follows: The Zionist regime has opposed the Guteres this, for if one looks at history over the Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, tinians and their rights in the occupied territories The United Nations presence in the occupied ideas in support of the Palestinians. The Rep- past centuries, there have been numerous where Trump was able to win Hillary against the crimes of the Zionist regime. The territories should be strengthened. In this regard, resentative of the Zionist regime at the United governments and powers that sought to Clinton and thus found way to the White plan appeared after the United Nations Securi- a group must be set up to monitor human rights Nations, Dennie Danone, said that the only support dominate their era and even, on occasion, House, there is no longer any chance ty Council called on members to report on the issues, as well as political issues and assess the that the Palestinians needed was the support of managed to do some good. There are some of his re-election. developments in the occupied territories and situation of the occupied territories. their authorities. Danone stressed that the PA peoples, polities and governments that The poll suggest that only 28% of to offer proposals to support the Palestinians. Increasing humanitarian assistance to the and Hamas only supported violence. quite literally have deserved reduction registered voters in Michigan, a state The UN Secretary-General affirmed that over residents of the occupied territories in vital. The fact is that the Zionist occupiers will not, in because on balance they have proven to Trump flipped in the 2016 presidential 170 Palestinians died in the Gaza Strip by Zionist Formation of a civilian monitoring body to any circumstances, favor the measures to improve be more destructive than constructive election, say he deserves a second term, snipers during the demonstrations this year in a report about activities in sensitive locations such the status of the Palestinians in the occupied for humanity as a whole. Nazi Germany while some 62% of voters polled believe report of the Zionist regime’s crimes against the as checkpoints and in areas close to Israeli set- territories. Over the past decade, the Zionists may be the prime example during the past it’s time to replace Trump. Palestinians. After the presentation, he argued tlements. have been using “blockades” and sanctions as a century of a country that deserved the ‘In Minnesota, a state Trump lost that the success any plan for Palestinian rights The deployment of a police force or military means to crush the Palestinians and force them world’s enmity. to Hillary Clinton by fewer than two required Tel Aviv and the Palestinians both to force by the United Nations in the Occupied Ter- to meet the demands of Tel Aviv. 13 The U.S. has long tried to fit the Islamic percentage points in 2016, roughly 30% Republic into this category of polities that of voters surveyed say Trump deserves allegedly don’t deserve to survive for the another go-around in the Oval Office, SOLE REASON, in fact, that Iran refuses to while 60% said he doesn’t”, writes the ally itself with U.S.