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.13337 Monday FEBRUARY 25, 2019 Esfand 6, 1397 Jumada Al thani 19, 1440 Enemies seriously Official warns Vincenzo Montella Yazd picked after sabotaging of ambiguities candidate for Iran job: as Iran’s 2019 Book Iran’s missiles 2 in FATF 2 report 15 Capital 16 Afghanistan officially starts exporting goods to India through Chabahar Zarif backs dialogue between TEHRAN — In an official ceremony on export cargo includes 200 tons of grains Sunday, the Afghanistan-Iran-India trade and 370 tons of talc stone. corridor in which Afghanistan will export In the ceremony, Ghani expressed goods to India through Iran’s southeastern appreciation for Iran and India’s joint Venezuelan rival factions Chabahar Port was inaugurated. efforts which have led to creating this See page 2 The event was attended by Afghan Pres- important trade corridor in the region. ident Ashraf Ghani, along with Iranian “Chabahar Port is the result of healthy Ambassador to Kabul Mohammadreza cooperation between India, Iran, and Bahrami and Indian Ambassador to Af- Afghanistan. This will ensure enhanced ghanistan Vinay Kumar, IRNA reported. connectivity and economic growth for the As reported, Afghanistan’s first 570-ton countries.” he said. 4 Iranian-made electric car ‘Yooz’ leads the way for pilot production TEHRAN — The first electric-powered The two-seater model of electric car car developed domestically by a knowl- is not defined in Iran’s traffic law. This edge-based company is now in pilot pro- has led to problems for issuing license duction stage. plates for these cars, the director of the Dubbed ‘Yooz’, meaning Panther, the knowledge-based company, Hossein manufacturing of the two-seater car began Ziarati, said. in the Iranian calendar year 1394 (March However the problem is solved with 2015-March 2016) and it was unveiled help of vice presidency for science and on January 18, 2017 concurrent with the technology and related organizations, he national clean air day. explained. 10 Landmine blast kills 24 civilians in Syria Majid Asgaripour Majid A landmine left behind by the Islamic Earlier this month, a similar landmine State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) explosion left seven civilians dead and an Takfiri terrorists in Syria’s west-central unspecified number of people injured in Hama Province has killed 24 civilians. Rasm Ahmar Village in Salamiyah. Syria’s official SANA news agency re- An armed conflict began in Syria in ported that the mine exploded on Sunday 2011. But the Syrian military, backed by Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ when a car carrying workers ran over it on the Russian air force and Iranian military Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Dario Molina (L) meets Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif in Tehran on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. the outskirts of Hama’s Salamiyah district. advisers, 13 PERSPECTIVE Is it Trump, or King Jared who is providing Saudi with nuclear capabilities?! ARTICLE Hanif Ghaffari Trump that is seeking to increase Saudi Arabian Second I would emphasize that President Heshmatollah Rahnama Political analyst EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Latin American expert By Javad Heirannia nuclear capabilities is King Jared as he is now Trump is a businessman first and a politician being called, the false messiah of the Chabad second. Everything he is doing with Saudi Arabia is TEHRAN — Robert David Steele, a former Supremacist cult. He is a toxic presence in the being done in the absence of a grand strategy, and Marine Corps infantry officer and CIA spy White House and is known to be an agent of focused on bringing revenue to U.S. companies. The behavioral who was recommended for the Nobel Peace a foreign power, Zionist Israel. We also have This is more about sales than it is about nuclear. Changing the Prize in 2017, regularly answers questions for reports that former National Security Advisor Third, I would point out that Saudi Arabia is paradox of Europe Tehran Times. General Michael Flynn has been active in help- already a nuclear power, aided by China, Israel, imposed system Top Trump administration officials have ing a consortium seeking to build 40 nuclear and Pakistan as well as the USA. Saudi Arabia is continues advocated for a plan to build dozens of nuclear plants and facilities to enrich uranium. I am said to be spending 40% of its military budget he U.S. policy of “regime change” in power plants in Saudi Arabia despite warnings not a fan of Jared Kushner, who should be on nuclear arms, and may have tested a nuclear the world countries is to keep Amer- he European Union has still not been that the move could pose ethical concerns and expelled from the White House but I am a weapon in Yemen. Tica intact and prevent the collapse able to define a clear relationship violate federal law, according to a report re- huge fan of General Flynn’s and attribute his Finally, I completely condemn any expansion of the American Empire. After losing between itself and the United States. T leased by House Democrats. Which groups in engagement to his need for money to pay legal of nuclear power. The waste from nuclear power power in the West of Asia, Washington Some European politicians like the Ger- U.S. will try to sell this sensitive technology bills associated with his contrived destruction plants – completely apart from their potential is struggling to regain influence in the man Chancellor, the French President and, to Saudi Arabia? by the Deep State terrified of his telling Pres- as a bridge toward nuclear weaponization – is Latin American region. above all, the British prime minister are Regime change is brought by the U.S. A: First let me say that the power behind ident Trump the truth every day. potentially catastrophic. 7 trying to continue to turn Europe into a when Washington loses influence in states passive act in the international system. as that is the case in Venezuela. In this equation, the independence of the With influence on Columbia, Brazil, European Union in the world has been Argentina and various right-wing states, completely questioned. Trump’s policy toward Saudi to be subverted by Clintonites: Kovacevic the U.S. has endeavored to implement its The paradoxical approaches taken by the EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW divided between the Trump people and the Clin- family is divided and so are its international illegal demands in the region. European authorities is definitely one of its tonites. In other words, between the nativist/ partners. The EU and the Clintonites support By Payman Yazdani The right-wing nations of South Amer- kind! Over the past months, Angela Merkel, nationalist faction and the neoliberal/globalist one wing of the ruling family; the Trump ad- ica are grappling with many problems, but the German Chancellor, has repeatedly em- TEHRAN — Prof. Kovacevic says Tump ad- faction. This is the case in every Department of ministration and the Israelis another. We will their governments try to cover the issues phasized that the EU can no longer rely on the ministration’s policy toward Saudi Arabia will the U.S. government: the Defense Department, see who will prevail. In order to distract public with anti-Venezuelan policy. United States to secure its interests. However, eventually be subverted by the Clintonites who the State Department, the U.S. intelligence attention from interal problems, Saudi mili- Columbia, particularly in Cúcuta, the German Chancellor held secret and hidden would prefer a regime change in Saudi Arabia. community, etc. I see this particular foreign tary and intelligence might launch operations where humanitarian aid organizations negotiations with the U.S. government and The U.S. is rushing to transfer sensitive nuclear policy decision as being linked to the Trump outside of the country. However, I don’t expect come together, needs the assistance far Trump to resolve Europe’s economic and power technology to Saudi Arabia, according to people, but it is possible that it will eventually them to involve the use of any weapons of mass more than anywhere else. security problems and crises. a new congressional report. be subverted by the Clintonites who would destruction. A man who is supposedly a “freedom In other words, there is a significant The issue was discussed with Professor Filip prefer a regime change in Saudi Arabia. U.S. is committed to Israeli regime’s security. seeker” in the public eye, is no one but difference between the speeches and actions Kovacevic from University of San Francisco. As the Saudi Kingdom is the main spon- Cant such a move create possible threats to the Juan Guaidó who received his training in of the European authorities regarding the Here is the full text of his interview: sor of Takfiri extremism all around the wold, security of Tel Aviv despite current cooperation the U.S. regime change system for a few EU’s independence from Washington. What can be the consequences of such an what can be the consequences of such an between Ryadh and Tel Aviv? years. In a few months leading up to the What is really happening in Europe? act for the region? act globally? A: This depends on which wing of the ruling unrest in Venezuela, Guaido was indirect Senior European officials seem to have no A: What has to be understood is that, at this A: I think that Saudi Arabia is embroiled in family prevails in the Saudi internal struggle. contact with the right-wing radicals who time finding out about the consequenc- time, the U.S.