baseball Page 14 olympics Pages 14, 15 & 16 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021 / ZUL-HIJJAH 19, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17749 16 PAGES 150 FILS Day by Day IT is said misers are not only en- emies of mankind, they are enemies Trouble seen in Iran N-talks of nations because of the danger they pose. Those who deliberately seek to obstruct the flow of money in any Swedes prosecute country block everything – even the air outlets forgetting how many will die Amir cables Moroccan King on accession of suffocation. They hold on to their stacks of money KUWAIT CITY, July 28, (KUNA): His Highness the Amir Sheikh TEHRAN, July 28, (AP): Iran’s supreme for their heirs only for the latter to spend Also: leader on Wednesday called the U.S. “stub- it extravagantly on worldly pleasures. Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent, on Wednesday, a cable of KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sa- As a result what the miser had collected congratulations and best wishes to King Mohammed VI of Morocco on bah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina L. born” in stalled nuclear talks in Vienna for over the years gets blown away with the 22nd anniversary of his accession to the throne, wishing the nation Romanowski discussed, Wednesday, bilateral relations and means discussing Tehran’s missiles and regional the snap of a finger. For such people prosperity and development under the wise leadership of the monarch. to develop them. influence, likely signaling more trouble money is the goal not the means. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al- During a meeting, both sides reviewed issues of common interest ...Yet, tomorrow is another day. Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah mainly security issues, said the Ministry of Interior’s public relations ahead for the negotiations. Zahed Matar Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables. — See Also Page 2 department. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks come as his hard-line protege, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, is poised to be sworn in next week as the head of the country’s civilian government. While Raisi has said he wants to return to the tattered nucle- Opinion ar deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in ex- change for the lifting of economic sanctions, Khamenei seem- ingly called for a more adversarial approach in his remarks. The supreme leader also appeared to describe outgoing Presi- dent Hassan Rouhani’s eight-year government as naive for its O Central Bank governor, the government is heedless approach in reaching the 2015 agreement - even as Rouhani and his Cabinet sat before him in a farewell meeting. “Others should use your experiences. This experience is a distrust of the West,” Khamenei said in remarks broadcast by By Ahmed Al-Jarallah state television. “In this government, it was shown up that trust Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times in the West does not work.” He added: “Westerners do not help us, they hit wherever FOR more than two years, we have they can.” been warning of what the country could The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to descend into in the absence of a well- a request for comment. The Biden administration days ear- studied economic and fi nancial reform lier criticized Iran for saying America had delayed a possible strategy that takes into account the prisoner-swap deal, calling it “an outrageous effort to deflect changes in the global oil market. And blame for the current impasse.” when the COVID-19 pandemic reached French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes Von Der Kuwait, we rang the alarm bell several Muhll also told journalists Monday that it was “urgent for Iran times after seeing the confusion in the to return to the negotiating table.” procedures, but the government was “Through its actions, Iran continues to exacerbate the nucle- and continues to be heedless. ar situation,” she said. “If it continues down this path, not only What the Governor of the Central will it delay the moment when an agreement might be reached Bank of Kuwait Dr. Mohammad Al- providing for the lifting of sanctions, but it could compromise Hashel said at the “Financial Stability” the very possibility of concluding the Vienna talks and restor- forum is an explicit recognition of “the ing the” deal. In his remarks Wednesday, Khamenei described American fall of the ax on the head”. He revealed negotiators as verbally promising to lift sanctions, but said any the inability of offi cials to seriously return to the nuclear deal must “include a sentence” on negoti- deal with both fi nancial and economic ating on other issues. matters, the fl imsy justifi cations and illogical arguments that still prevail in Principle the government, and its wrangles with “By putting this sentence, they want to provide an excuse the parliamentarians who have mas- for their further interventions on the principle of (the deal) and tered the art of lying to people. They missile program and regional issues,” the leader said. “If Iran take advantage of the current crisis to refuses to discuss them, they will say that you have violated tickle the feelings of voters by raising the agreement and the agreement is over.” the slogan of “Do not touch the citi- Rouhani sat off to the side at Khamenei’s office during the zen’s pocket”. meeting along with his senior vice president, while officials in This slogan has been used dozens his government sat before the supreme leader in socially dis- of times over the past two years, and tanced chairs amid the country’s raging coronavirus outbreak. the same continues to extend around All wore masks, making it difficult to see their expressions the neck of the economy and stifle its as Khamenei criticized any outreach to the West while only breath through delay and suspension praising “some” of the country’s diplomats in front of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. of development projects. In addition, “Westerners do not help us, they hit wherever they can,” the failure to support small entrepre- Khamenei said. He also said at another point: ”They don’t neurs came as a punch below the belt. help, they are enemies.” Therefore, it is a wonder that the of- Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of ura- fi cials see all this but do not move a nium gas to just 3.67% purity, which can be used in nuclear fi nger, unless it is believed that adding power plants but is far below weapons-grade levels of 90%. tea, salmon fi llets and breadcrumbed It also put a hard cap on Iran’s uranium stockpile to just 300 shrimp to the ration card is considered kilograms (661 pounds). Tehran also committed to using only as a support for the citizens in order to 5,060 of its first-generation centrifuges, the devices that spin avoid touching their pockets! the uranium gas to enrich it. It is assumed that the executive au- Then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew Amer- thority researches, studies and con- ica from the accord in 2018. Today, Iran has broken all the lim- sults with institutions that prepare its it agreed to under the deal. It now enriches small amounts of plans before it takes appropriate deci- uranium up to 63% purity, its highest level ever. It also spins sions in anticipation of the expected far-more advanced centrifuges and more of them than allowed problems. However, it seems the advi- under the accord, worrying nuclear nonproliferation experts, sors are only profi cient in “rot”; hence though Tehran insists its program is peaceful. The International Atomic Energy Agency also hasn’t been the confusion that worsened matters, able to access its surveillance cameras at Iranian nuclear sites while the concerned international in- since late February, nor data from its online enrichment moni- stitutions herald us with further down- tors and electronic seals - hobbling the U.N. nuclear watch- grading of the sovereign rating. Photo by Iehab Qurtal dog’s monitoring abilities. In the forum, several extremely un- An aerial view of Kuwait City showing some stand-out high-rise buildings. Trump said he withdrew from the deal over Iran’s ballistic comfortable signals were made in this missile program, as well as its support for regional militias regard. Did they hear those voices that like the Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. concern them? Did they realize the se- Biden’s administration has said it seeks a “longer and stron- riousness of the words of the governor ger” deal, possibly involving those issues given Khamenei’s of the Central Bank of Kuwait? Or are Other Voices comments. things still “no worries, it will all be Tensions over the nuclear deal’s collapse have spilled across well”? the wider Middle East in the form of attacks and sabotage. The government did not take any Meanwhile, Iran’s already ailing economy has further suf- rational measures to stop this decline. fered, leading to the drastic devaluation of its rial currency and Instead of tactical remedies, the crisis ‘Mosafer’ app says do not travel fueling protests. deepened - fi rst with its decision to ex- Swedish public prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged pel the expertise, then by not attracting an Iranian citizen with committing grave war crimes during the foreign investments, followed by its By Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli I couldn’t help but remember the unfortunate situation in my final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.