Zangeneh: U.S. Behind Oil Market Tensions Official: Iran to Unveil 112 Nuclear Achievements BUSHEHR (Dispatches) -- Iranian Minister of Petroleum TEHRAN (Press TV) -- The spokesman for the Atomic En- Bijan Zangeneh said on Saturday frequent U.S. comments ergy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the Islamic Republic about oil prices had created market tensions, the ministry’s will unveil 112 new nuclear achievements in April. news website Shana reported. “Americans talk a lot and I advise them to talk less. They (have) caused tensions in Behrouz Kamalvandi described the achievements as the oil market for over a year now and they are responsible “very important,” saying they would cover various fields, for it, and if this trend continues, the market will be more including exploration, extraction, fuel cycle, power plants, tense,” he said. He also said, “We do not know whether U.S. science and technology as well as laser. The achievements waivers would be extended or not, we will do our job but would be unveiled on Iran’s National Nuclear Technology they (the U.S.) say something new every single day.” Day on April 9, he said. VOL NO: LV 10849 TEHRAN / Est.1959 Monday, March 18, 2019, Esfand 27, 1397, Rajab 11, 1440, Price 20000 Rials Situation in West Bank Tense Viewpoint Researchers Iran’s Aliakbari Beats American Zionist Court Orders Energy-Rich Iran on the Develop Medical Threshold of Economic Shelton Graves at Closure of al-Aqsa’s 2Bonanza Despite Sanctions Linear Accelerators ACA 93 - St. Petersburg Bab al-Rahma IRGC Chief General Jafari: 3 6 8 All of Zionist Regime Within Reach of Four New Phases of South Pars Comeimpose sanctions Online on companies Hezbollah Missiles that do business in Iran. Zangeneh said on Saturday that TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- All comes two weeks after Zion- talks are continuing with CNPC. of the occupying regime of Isra- ist PM Benjamin Netanyahu “America’s sanctions against el is within range of Hezbollah’s boasted that Israel’s navy could Iran are a crime against human- missiles, commander of the Is- stop Iranian oil shipments. ity,” Rouhani said in a speech lamic Revolution Guards Corps The deployment also comes from Bushehr province in south- (IRGC) Maj.-Gen. Muhammad less than a month after a large- ern Iran. Ali Jafari said in an interview scale naval exercise in the Per- “Americans did not want us to inaugurate any important projects published Sunday. sian Gulf and strategic Strait of during the current year, but we “The current status quo and Hormuz. made all projects operational on the current capabilities of the Tashak said, “The naval schedule,” he added. resistance front of the Islamic group is on a mission to pro- Rouhani said the sanctions are Revolution are all the unique vide security for the routes are psychological war through accomplishments of the Is- used by the Islamic Republic which America is trying to make lamic Revolution which can- of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) the Iranians pessimistic about not be verbally described and in the area of the Gulf of Aden their future and make them be- lieve that as time goes by, their they rather should be sensed,” and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.” conditions will deteriorate. he said in an interview with Iran has been working to The president also said Rou- the Persian-language Soroush upgrade its navy, with new hani is ready to establish good Magazine. vessels and submarines intro- relations with all its neighboring “While they once dreamed of duced to bolster the country’s Phases 13, 22, 23 and 24 of South Pars were officially inaugurated on Sunday, March 17, 2019. countries with an objective of ad- their territorial expansion from fleet and recently announced vancing the region’s interests. the Nile River to the Euphra- that it had commissioned its TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Presi- able to stop all our plans and ad- said last week. Another refinery He said any strains in ties be- tes River, and they were after first domestically developed dent Hassan Rouhani formally vances,” Rouhani added. for phases 22, 23 and 24 also tween the Islamic Republic and inaugurated four new phases of Minister of Petroleum Bijan came online Sunday. some of its neighbors had been realizing this wish in the past submarine capable of firing South Pars, the world’s largest Zangeneh said on Saturday that Each plant has a capacity to initiated by the opposite side. 50 years, today you can see cruise missiles. gas field, on Sunday, according to Iran, which share South Pars with process 56 million cubic meters “We have a good relationship that they have been unable to Over the past decade, Iran’s a statement posted by the Iranian Qatar, expects to operate 27 phas- of gas per day and convert it to with our neighbors, including Qa- expand their land even for an naval groups have escorted Ministry of Petroleum on Twitter. es by next March. LPG, ethane, condensate and sul- tar, Oman, Turkey, Azerbaijan, inch; they even have lost some 6,000 oil tankers in interna- Iran has invested $11 billion With their launch, Iran’s daily fur worth $5.5 billion a year at Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and of the territories they had al- tional waters, Tashak said. to complete the four phases and gas production will be surpassing the going market prices, the min- Pakistan, and we want such a rela- ready occupied and are under The missions, he added, were they will increase the country’s that of Qatar with which it shares istry’s Shana news outlet said. tionship to exist between us and all of our neighbors,” he added. full siege from all around their undertaken in line with Leader gas production capacity by up to the offshore field. The revenue, it said, will account 110 million cubic meters per day, The $5 billion refinery for phase for 2 percent of Iran’s GDP of Rouhani said it didn’t matter borders,” he continued. of the Islamic Revolution Aya- the statement said. 13 which was inaugurated on some $427 billion. for Iran whether countries were The occupying regime of Is- tollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s “Today is a very auspicious day Sunday had already become fully France’s Total and China Na- Shia-majority or Sunni-majority rael and Hezbollah last fought description of the navy as a for the Iranian nation, which has operational. The first shipping of tional Petroleum Corp (CNPC) or whether they were located a war in 2006. Hezbollah has strategic force which should dealt strong blows to enemies, its gas condensate was delivered suspended investment in phase north of the Persian Gulf or to its now hundreds of thousands of expand its operating range and because they thought that by im- on March 11 for export, the proj- 11 of South Pars last year after south. short-range rockets and sever- confront piracy. posing sanctions, they would be ect’s operator Payam Motamed the United States threatened to (Continued on Page 7) al thousand more missiles that can reach deep into Occupied Taliban Continue Conquests Palestine. Accounts of Heroism Emerge in New “To put it in a nutshell, we Amid Talks With U.S. can say that the enemy has not KABUL (Dispatches) -- At in the district of Bala Murghab, Zealand Carnage been successful in the region least 50 members of the Afghan he said. Bala Murghab is the and all its plots and operations security forces have surrendered province’s most populous dis- CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON media accounts minutes before the old son, Talha, was also killed. have ended up with nothing to the Taliban in a fight for con- trict. (Reuters) -- Accounts emerged on Sun- violence began. The death toll climbed to 50 when but failure for them and suc- trol of Afghanistan’s western “These soldiers have been day of heroic attempts to tackle a gun- Amid the shock, outrage and re- police found another body at the Al province of Badghis that has cre- fighting against the Taliban for man who slaughtered 50 people at two criminations that have consumed Noor mosque, where more than 40 cess for the Islamic Revolution ated heavy casualties, officials years and if they give up, they mosques in New Zealand, as authorities New Zealand over the past two people died after a gunman burst and the Resistance Front,” Ja- said. will be killed by Taliban,” Bik prepared to begin releasing the bodies of days, tales of heroism and self-sac- in and opened fire on worshippers fari said. Fighting in Afghanistan has said. victims to their families for burial. rifice emerged. with a semi-automatic rifle with On Sunday, Iran’s navy said intensified even as Taliban and The district was at risk of fall- Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a Abdul Aziz, 48, was hailed for high-capacity magazines, driving it had deployed its 61st flotilla U.S. officials finished the latest ing to the Taliban unless Afghan suspected white supremacist, was confronting the shooter at the sec- to attack a second mosque. to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. round of peace talks on Tuesday, forces receive air and ground re- charged with murder on Saturday. ond mosque and preventing more Police rammed the suspect’s ve- “The naval group is on a mis- with both sides citing progress. inforcements, Badghis provin- Tarrant was remanded without a deaths. hicle and arrested him as he drove sion to provide security for the Afghanistan usually sees a cial council member Abdullah plea and is due back in court on Aziz, originally from Afghani- away from the second mosque in marked increase in violence in Afzali said on Saturday.