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.13399 Tuesday MAY 28, 2019 Khordad 7, 1398 Ramadan 22, 1440 Rouhani felicitates Iran says no direct Iran ready for VNL IRIB dismisses managers Lebanon on or indirect talks challenge: for program insulting Liberation Day 2 with U.S. 2 Igor Kolakovic 15 Sunni personalities 16 Zarif proposes regional non-aggression pact TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister as Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Iraqi Alarm Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday National Wisdom Movement. that he has proposed “regional non-ag- Zarif returned to Tehran on Monday. gression pact” during his three-day visit “In #Iraq, where I’ve held substantive to Iraq. and productive meetings with the Pres- While in Iraq, Zarif held talks with ident, PM, Speaker, FM & leadership of senior Iraqi officials including Presi- two parliamentary coalitions. Proposed dent Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adil regional non-aggression pact: #Neighbors- sounded Abdul-Mahdi and political leaders such First,” Zarif tweeted on Sunday. 2 Larijani retains post as Majlis speaker, new vice speaker elected in EU TEHRAN – The members of the Majlis pro-reform Hope faction in parliament, (parliament) on Sunday voted to choose won the votes of 105 MPs. Traditional European parties their favorites each to the presiding board, Massoud Pezeshkian, a senior re- which includes parliament speaker, two formist lawmaker, was also reelected did not get good results in of his deputies and secretaries. as the first vice-speaker and Abdolre- Based on the results, Ali Larijani suc- za Mesri, a principlist, as the second ceeded to remain in his post as parliament vice-speaker. parliamentary elections speaker for another and last year of the Ali Motahari, who had served as the See page 6 incumbent parliament. second deputy speaker for the last three Larijani received 155 votes while his years, failed to secure a place in the pre- rival Mohammad Reza Aref, the leader sidium. Tens of thousands of anti-Netanyahu Israelis protest in Tel Aviv TEHRAN— Tens of thousands of Israelis overreach, LA Times reported. gathered in the central city of Tel Aviv, The rally was a show of force by the protesting proposed legislation granting new opposition parties a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu im- Netanyahu was reelected to his fourth munity from prosecution on a series of successive term as prime minister. corruption charges. Yair Lapid of Israel’s Blue and White The protesters outside the city’s Muse- party compared Netanyahu’s efforts to con- um of Art also called for protecting Isra- solidate his power to Turkey’s authoritarian AFP el’s democratic identity from government President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 13 ARTICLE ARTICLE Ebrahim Fallahi Scholar says Iran’s independence is a challenge to U.S. Martin Love Tehran Times journalist By Negar Asadi against Iran. The conflict intensified as the U.S. However, he said, “So far, they have not suc- Political analyst from TEHRAN — Modjtaba Sadria, a prominent ended waivers for buyers of the remaining importers ceeded.” North Carolina scholar, says that Iran’s independence is a serious of the Iranian oil last month. “Maybe economically, and I emphasize maybe, challenge to unipolarism of the U.S. The Trump’s White House has said the purpose they have caused some challenges for the Iranian China is Trump’s “Iran is the most powerful, independent and behind such sanctions campaign is to bring Iran society, but Iran’s political will and military power There are good political and military might in the region. And this to the negotiating table. and also independence have not been reduced,” “safety valve” in independence bothers the U.S. policy makers,” Sa- However, Sadria, a psychoanalyst, said, “You the leading scholar stated. reasons why Iran dria said in an interview with the Tehran Times on cannot order a powerful and independent country. ‘U.S. seeks to revive and maintain disrupted oil market Sunday. Tension has been rising between Iran and So, you are forced to negotiate with it which is unipolarism’ won’t fold to U.S. the United States since President Donald Trump not a desire of the U.S. policy makers.” Sadria also said that the unipolar world have n the past few weeks the oil market ordered U.S. pullout from the multilateral 2015 He added that the U.S. is seeking to diminish been seriously challenged yet the United States extremism has been witnessing great volatility, nuclear deal in May 2018 and ordered sanctions the power and independence of Iran. is working hard to revive and maintain it. 2 as the quivers of the U.S.-China trade resident Donald Trump claims the I vast Military Industrial Complex, war once again hit the fragile market. Last week, oil prices experienced the Potherwise known as the MIC, which sharpest drop this year as concerns over Trump’s three-month ultimatum to two controversial cabinet members has become everything Eisenhower in 1960 warned against, is somehow “pres- a global economic slowdown caused by TEHRAN — Sources in the United States have as Pennsylvania and Florida coupled with an negotiation with Iran for an alternative nuclear the China-U.S. trade spat once again suring” him in to war on Iran. revealed that President Donald Trump, while increase in domestic criticism of the White House agreement. One would imagine, however, that it’s permeated the markets. expressing dissatisfaction over the U.S. foreign over intensified rhetoric against Iran have led When did the ultimatum begin? The sudden fall came in a weekend not so much the MIC (or the Pentagon policy, has set a three-month deadline for the to an anger by Trump vis-a-vis his secretary of The deadline was kicked off on May 16, just per se), but rather malign if not psycho- in which the prices were following a survival of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. state and national security adviser. the day Trump in a Twitter message denied the steady upward trend toward $74 per pathic individuals in the administration Noornews, a news website close to the secre- Setting this three-month deadline, which existence of any differences between himself like Mike Pompeo and John Bolton who barrel on escalating tensions between tariat of the Iranian Supreme National Security according to Trump may even be shorter, has and his cabinet, saying the tensions were caused Iran and the U.S. and its allies in the have had the President’s ear for the past Council, has reported that the decline in Trump’s led to intensification of Pompeo’s activities in by media hallucinations such as the New York year who began with urging Trump to region. popularity in opinion polls in critical states such Europe and elsewhere and his quest for indirect Times. 3 High oil prices are not in line with the can the JCPOA and reimpose economic policies of the Trump administration so sanctions on the Islamic Republic, along maintaining a balance between the oil with the Zionists who have been trying prices driving factors and the deterrent Washington Post dirty deal with MBS on Khashoggi to drum up a U.S.-led war on Iran for decades. ones, has been for long, a great head- TEHRAN — The Washington Post which turned hammad bin Salman (MBS), make a secret and to reduce the extent and severity of his opposition Additionally, there are figures like ache for the white house and China has into a media critic of Al Saud after the murder dirty deal with Riyadh that it’s result is publishing to Riyadh in exchange for a large hush money Patrick Shanahan, the acting “defense” played the major weighting role which of Jamal Khashoggi, the columnist of this news- a fake news about Iran’s role in destroying Saudi’s from the Saudis. secretary, who knows next to nothing has come to rescue Trump whenever his paper, finally decides to reduce the extent and oil infrastructure. On the contrary, the Saudis have urged the about the military but quite a bit about decisions push the prices in the white severity of his opposition to Riyadh in exchange This newspaper claimed that Iran participated Washington Post officials, in addition to reducing corporations like Boeing which are part house’s opposite direction. for a large hush money from the Saudis. in last week drone attacks at Aramco Oilfield, their attacks on Riyadh in pursuit of the murder of the corporate gravy train standing to Considering the great worries that is According to Nour News (a website close to which Yemenis claimed responsibility for it. The of Khashoggi, to publish some targeted and false profit from military action anywhere. And spreading across the markets all around Iran’s Supreme National Security Council) the Washington Post which turned into a media critic news aimed at increasing the power of Al Saud’s even Bolton is apparently working out the world, it seems wise to ask, is the Washington Post while apparently introducing of Al Saud after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, psychological operations, especially in the West of the Pentagon mostly, not the White trade war really as concerning as it himself as a critic of the Saudi regime and Mo- the columnist of this newspaper, finally decides and Southwest Asia. 13 sounds? Or maybe Trump’s sudden House, as National Security Advisor outrageous clashes with China is all to Trump. part of a conspiracy plan to keep the The provocations against Iran have oil prices in a safe zone? become increasingly intense, and already Trump and driving factors Night of Destiny there have been alleged attacks on an Since the beginning of 2019, several Aramco facility in Arabia and some factors have been constantly pointed observed in damage to three ships in the Persian out as big influencers in the oil market, Gulf – attacks blamed on Iran.