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.13217 Saturday SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 Mehr 7, 1397 Muharram 19, 1440 EU’s Mogherini eyes Iran to host Iran runners-up at Iranian photographer Iran SPV for trade 11th OSJD conference Asian Beach Volleyball Firuzi wins Alfred ‘before November’ 2 next week 4 Championships 15 Fried Peace Medal 16 Leader asks cultural organizations to increase productions on Sacred Defense ARTTEHRAN – Leader of literati, filmmakers and managers of deskof the Islamic Revo- cultural organizations on Wednesday, he lution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, “The relevant organizations must U.S. isolated has asked relevant organizations to persistently pursue a hundredfold increase initiate a massive increase in cultural in literary and art productions about the productions on the 1980-1988 Iran- Sacred Defense.” Iraq war, which is called the “Sacred “If this is done properly, all plans from Defense” in Iran. the arrogant to defeat the revolution will See page 2 Speaking in a meeting with a group be in vain,” he noted. 16 at UN IRGC warns UAE, Saudis to ‘stop malice’ POLITICS TEHRAN — The public of Iran. You are too small to count deskIslamic Revolution as a rival for a great country like Iran’,” Guards Corps on Friday warned the United Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia IRGC’s deputy commander, said on Friday. against venturing to create insecurity in “If you cross our red lines, we will surely Iran, advising them to “stop malice and cross yours,” Salami asserted. conspiracy” against Iran. Tehran holds Saudi Arabia and the UAE “To the regimes of the UAE and Saudi mainly responsible for the September 22 terror Arabia, which are the main directors of attacks on a military parade in Ahvaz, capital of wicked anti-security acts in our country, the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which we say ‘you will gain no success in creating resulted in the death of 24 people including tension and conflict with the Islamic re- civilians and servicemen. 2 ‘The world will laugh at Netanyahu’s anti-Iran show’ POLITICS TEHRAN — The injudicious and hollow remarks and false deskworld will laugh at Is- shows,” Qassemi said, Foreign Ministry raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s website reported on Friday. claims about a secret atomic warehouse Addressing the UN, the hawkish Is- in Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman raeli prime minister showed an aerial Bahram Qassemi has said. photograph of the Iranian capital marked “The occupying regime [of Israel] with a red arrow and pointed to what he should know that in the modern age, the claimed was a previously secret ware- whole world, as he [Netanyahu] himself house holding nuclear-related material, president.ir saw, will just laugh out loud at such untrue, Reuters reported. 2 EDITORIAL IRGC dismantles terror group on border with Pakistan ARTICLE Mohammad Ghaderi POLITICS TEHRAN — The Islamic the statement read. Seyed Hossein Mousavian Tehran Times editor-in-chief deskRevolution Guards Corps Located in the volatile region, Iran once in a Princeton University @ghaderi62 announced on Friday that it had dismantled a while foils terrorist attacks. Terrorists mainly Researcher terrorist group in the Saravan border region, an try to enter Iran from neighboring Iraq and area bordering Pakistan. Pakistan. Macron and Trump: In a statement released by the Quds unit On September 22, a terrorist attack occurred Iran will wait for of the IRGC, it is said that security forces in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, capital of Khuz- From controversy killed four terrorist and wounded two of estan province, which left 24 people killed and 69 Trump to lose power them. It said the rest of the terrorists fled others injured. A four-year-old child was among to bargain to Pakistan. the killed ones. efore his speech at the United The statement noted that the terrorists failed The Intelligence Ministry released a report on Nations General Assembly, U.S. rench President Emmanuel Macron to cause any casualties among security forces. Monday announcing that 22 people have been B President Donald Trump tweet- has recently had lots of ups and It added weapons and ammunition were seized other security and intelligence forces are vigilant arrested in connection with the attack. ed: “Despite requests, I have no plans downs! On the one hand, he had F from terrorists. and counter any move by terrorist groups and The ministry said “weapons, exclusive mate- to meet Iranian President Hassan secret dealings with Trump’s government “As it has been announced for several times, forces affiliated to the foreign intelligence organ- rial and communication equipment were seized” Rouhani. Maybe someday in the fu- over current issues in the region (especially the Quds Base of the IRGC’s Ground Forces and izations who seek to endanger Iran’s security,” from the people involved in the attack. ture. I am sure he is an absolutely over Syria and Iran), and on the other lovely man!” hand, he is trying to enter international The tweet came after weeks of specula- equations as an independent leader. tions that a meeting between Trump and At this point, Macron tried to challenge Suicide rate rises among young U.S. veterans: report Iranian President Hassan Rouhani might Trump’s speech at the United Nations Suicide rates have jumped substantially among the last decade trying to improve the transitioning VA says in its report. “To prevent veteran suicide, take place on the sidelines of the UNGA General Assembly, and expressed regret young United States military veterans, despite process for our veterans, but we’re clearly failing, and we must help reduce veterans’ risk for suicide sessions. that the U.S. president introduced “nation- efforts by the Pentagon to curb the problem, ac- people are dying,” said Joe Chenelly, the executive before they reach a crisis point and support Indeed, such a meeting did not alism” as a basis for his actions towards cording to new data from the U.S. government director of the national veterans group Amvets. those veterans who are in crisis. This requires happen, not because the U.S. pres- the international community. It remains Military veterans aged 18 to 34 have higher rates More than 6,000 veterans have killed themselves the expansion of treatment and prevention ser- ident tweeted his refusal, but be- unclear, however, whether other European of suicide than any other age group, the U.S. Depart- each year since 2008, according to the VA data. vices and a continued focus on innovative crisis cause the Iranian side is simply not players would be willing to accept him as ment of Veterans Affairs (VA) said in its National Veteran suicide rates increased 26 percent intervention services.” interested. Last year, the Iranian their leader in today’s complicated conflicts. Suicide Data Report released on Wednesday. between 2005 and 2016, as suicide rates in the “The new data tells us that too many younger government had to turn down re- The CNN has recently reported that In total, 6,079 veterans killed themselves in overall U.S. population also increased. veterans – specifically those of the post-9/11 era quests from the White House for “French President Emmanuel Macron 2016, down from 6,281 in 2015, the report said. The suicide rate was 1.5 times greater for vet- – were slipping through the cracks despite all such a meeting eight times and this delivered a fiery rebuke of U.S. policies The suicide rate for young veterans increased erans than for civilians who never served in the the efforts to address mental healthcare access year President Rouhani again em- under President Donald Trump at the to 45 deaths per 100,000 population in 2016, up military, even after adjusting for age and gender. and barriers to seamless transition after service,” phasized that his government is not UN General Assembly Tuesday, signal- from 40.4 in 2015, even as the overall veteran The gap was even greater for female veterans: Chenelly said. interested in holding direct talks ing that he is ready to take up the mantle suicide rate decreased slightly. after adjusting for age, their suicide rate was Veterans were also more likely to kill them- with the present U.S. administration. of global leadership usually assumed by Many veterans in that age group fought in the 1.8 times greater than the rate for non-veteran selves using a gun. In 2016, 70 percent of vet- There are several reasons a U.S. leader.” U.S. wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. women in 2016. eran suicides were by firearm, compared with why Iran really doesn’t want to talk It continues; “At times directly referring “This isn’t just alarming. It’s a national emer- “The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 48 percent of non-veterans. to Trump. to the U.S., Macron rapped the Trump gency that requires immediate action. We’ve spent is committed to veteran suicide prevention,” the (Source: Press TV) First, it sees no reason to abandon administration for its policies on Iran, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of climate change, the UN, migration and Action (JCPOA), which took many years Mideast peace, among others.” of hard negotiations to conclude. Former The report adds on that the 40-year-old U.S. President Barack Obama also saw the French leader also took direct aim at the Women’s JCPOA as the “most robust and intrusive central theme of Trump’s speech earlier inspections and transparency regime, ever in the day, in which the U.S.