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.13363 Saturday APRIL 13, 2019 Farvardin 24, 1398 Sha’aban 7, 1440 Iranian diplomat says Moscow describes as Patosi’s late winner Hatamikia’s war drama IRGC terror designation ‘baseless’ U.S. claims gives Esteghlal edge “The Scout” to open Fajr is just rhetoric 2 against IRGC 2 over Sepahan 15 International Film Festival 16 See page 2 Iran plans to double exports to ‘I’m a Guard too’: neighboring countries by 2021 TEHRAN — Iranian industry, mining from the Islamic country, Rahmani noted that and trade minister said the country plans his ministry is going to focus on developing to double its exports to the neighboring domestic production and defining new projects Iranians respond to countries by the Iranian calendar year to manufacture all the industrial equipment of 1400 (which starts in March 2021), needed inside the country. Tasnim news agency reported on Friday. The official further pointed to some of According to Reza Rahmani, current- the potent areas which could be worked ly the value of exports to the neighboring on in order to increase exports includ- countries stands at $25 million and it should ing home appliances, apparel industry, increase to at least $50 million in two years. petrochemicals, and marine industries, IRGC blacklisting Mentioning the fact that only two percent basic metals such as steel, aluminum and of the total imports of Iran’s neighbors comes copper as well as agriculture. Zarif writes to Guterres: U.S. responsible for consequences of anti-IRGC move TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Mo- In the name of God, the Compassionate, hammad Javad Zarif has said that the United the Merciful States shall bear full responsibility for the con- Excellency, sequences of its naming the Islamic Revolution I wish to bring to your attention the Guards Corps a terrorist organization. Zarif unprecedented, unlawful and dangerous made the remarks in a letter he wrote designation of the Islamic Revolutionary on Thursday to Antonio Guterres, the Guard Corps official branch of the Armed secretary-general of the United Nations. Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran—as Following is the full text of his letter: a so-called 2 Sudanese defy curfew by post-coup junta, call for civilian rule Sudanese protesters have defied a curfew, Most shops and offices were closed holding angry demonstrations after army on Friday which is the day of prayer and Majid Asgaripour commanders took control of the country rest in Sudan as demonstrators demand- following a palace coup against President ed a civilian body to lead the transition Omar al-Bashir. The protesters on Fri- to democracy. The ruling military coun- day dismissed the transitional military cil, which is now running Sudan under council formed by top brass as the “same Defense Minister Mohammed Ahmed Awad old faces” from the old regime which had Ibn Auf, promised the country would have Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ ruled the country for three decades. a new civilian government. 13 EDITORIAL Iran’s IRGC leading anti-Terror force in region: U.S. analyst ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi Martin Love TEHRAN (Tasnim) — An American political labeled IRGC as a terrorist group and said, “This targeting civilians to spread fear.” But since the Tehran Times editor-in-chief Political analyst from commentator described US President Donald unprecedented step, led by the Department of neocon-Zionist orchestrated false flag event of @ghaderi62 North Carolina Trump’s move to blacklist the Islamic Revo- State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only September 11 2001, the word terrorism has been lution Guards Corps (IRGC) as “insane” and a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC systematically abused by the Zionist-dominated “self-defeating”, saying that the force is the actively participates in, finances, and promotes Western media. Today, terrorism means what- What is the “leading regional force fighting against the terrorism as a tool of statecraft”. What is your ever the Zionists want it to mean. It is an empty U.S has further shot actual terrorists”. take on the move? slur used against everyone the Zionists perceive common purpose “Iran’s IRGC ... does not intentionally or sys- Barrett: Reckless, absurd, insane, self-defeat- as an enemy. itself in the feet and of London and tematically target civilians. On the contrary, it ing…there are no words to describe it. Undoubt- And what makes the situation so Orwellian will bleed out in time is the leading regional force fighting against the edly, all of the actual Iran experts in the State is that the Zionists are themselves the world’s Brussels? actual terrorists, the groups that really do in- Department opposed the move. But Trump’s worst terrorists. The book State of Terror by n a day of infamy, April 11th, Ju- tentionally and systematically target civilians, political appointees, supported by however Thomas Suarez makes it clear that the settler lian Assange was kicked out of ritain’s departure from the Euro- namely, Israel and Daesh. So to be accurate, many Israeli agents have infiltrated the State colonial project known as “Israel” was created the Ecuador Embassy in London the (US) State Department should change its Department—presumably quite a few of them— by terrorism and persists by terrorism. The O pean Union is still unknown! Many and arrested after more than six years analysts believe that extending the statement and designate the IRGC as the world’s were apparently able to override truth, logic, and entire Zionist project is one ongoing long-term of asylum. He was under threat of ar- B leading anti-terrorist group,” Kevin Barrett told the US national interest and hand another gift systematic terror attack on a civilian popula- British government’s deadline to leave rest for years after a U.S. court issued a the EU complicates the existing situation. Tasnim in an interview. to Trump’s boss Netanyahu. tion. And the Zionists are masters of false flag sealed indictment that actually is rather This is while European parliamentary The following is the full text of the interview. The word terrorism once actually meant some- terror against their own people and their own weak. This intrepid Australian journalist elections are scheduled to take place soon. Tasnim: The Trump administration on Monday thing: “A military tactic consisting of intentionally supposed allies as well. 7 did nothing wrong but publish truthful Meanwhile, some European and British information that he had collected about officials are also seeking a new referendum U.S. military misdeeds and war crimes in in the UK. The same shows that the six- the Middle East and political misdeeds month extension of the London-Brussels ‘Syria refused to recognize Israel in exchange for Golan’ and corruption in the U.S. negotiations has not been coincidental by Egypt’s former dictator Hosni Mubarak has Heights as Israeli territory last month “was the ing against the government of Syrian President An American doctor I know well managed the European authorities! This action has revealed that an Israeli proposal to give the oc- result” of Syria’s refusal of the offer. Bashar al-Assad. to visit Assange twice in 2018 and subse- been quite purposeful. cupied Golan Heights to Syria was turned down In 1967, Israel waged a full-scale war against Having defeated terrorist enclaves in the quently wrote up a report about Assange in As CNBC reported, Theresa May man- by Syria’s then-President Hafez al-Assad in 1998 Arab countries, during which it occupied a large country following the years-long foreign-backed the British Medical Journal about his health aged to convince EU leaders to grant the to avoid recognizing Israel. swathe of Syria’s Golan and annexed it four years militancy, Damascus has vowed to retake the problems and what for years amounted to U.K. more time before it leaves the bloc, Speaking to the Egyptian al-Hayat network, later - a move never recognized by the interna- Israeli-occupied territory by every means possible. isolation and torture in the embassy. So but experts say her days in office are now Mubarak said the rejected offer included estab- tional community. Israel has since built dozens Speaking last week, Syrian Foreign Minister the matter of Assange is something that numbered. “A six-month period is clear- lishing formal relations and opening embassies. of illegal settlements in the Golan Heights in Walid al-Muallem said “Syria will liberate the I am familiar with. Assange has not had ly enough for the Conservative Party to “I contacted the Israelis to try to recover the defiance of international calls for the regime to occupied Golan by all means, and all choices medical treatment or even a visit to a dentist contemplate a change in leadership while Golan Heights, but they demanded the opening stop its illegal construction activities. are on the table.” in years, though he has been ailing and in still allowing some time for the incoming of an Israeli embassy in Damascus and a Syrian Earlier this month, reports suggested that Israel “Israel mustn’t go [too] far...We have the will virtual prison in the embassy until now. It PM to seek to negotiate with the EU,” J.P. one on the occupied land as a kind of Syrian is planning to settle some additional 250,000 and determination,” he added. all seems unbelievable. Morgan economist Malcolm Barr said in a recognition of Israel” he said. settlers over the next 30 years.