WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 16 Pages Price 10,000 Rials 38th year No.13063 Sunday MARCH 4, 2018 Esfand 13, 1396 Jumada Al thani 15, 1439 Iran’s defense Rouhani offers Alihosseini:I deserved Iranian photographers program has nothing to condolence to to win Laureus World honored at Bristol Salon do with France 2 Azeri president 2 Comeback of the Year 15 of Photography 16 Oil production preserving, boosting See page 2 projects worth $6b specified ECONOMY TEHRAN— Iranian million-$300 million deals. deskOil Ministry has speci- Referring to the plan for supporting fied 30 projects worth $6 billion for pre- domestic production, the official said man- No missile serving and boosting oil production in ufacturing of 10 groups of goods inside the the country, according to an oil official. country is being followed up and related Addressing the 2nd Iran International contracts will be singed. Exploration and Production Congress and Emphasizing the necessity of boosting Exhibition (Iran E&P 2018) in Tehran, quality of domestically-manufactured prod- talks unless Habibollah Bitaraf, the deputy oil minister ucts, Bitaraf stated that Iranian manufac- for engineering, research and technology, turers should promote the quality of their said these projects will be handed over goods because the foreign competitors offer West gives up to the qualified companies based on $50 the same product with some lower prices. Tehran confirms Zarif, Kerry met in Munich POLITICS TEHRAN — Tehran sure national interests”. nuclear arms deskhas confirmed that the The New Yorker on Friday first reported Iranian foreign minister and his former the private meeting. It said “Kerry quietly American counterpart met during the Mu- urged the Iranians not to abandon the nich Security Conference on February 18. [nuclear] deal or violate its terms, what- Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram ever the Trump Administration does.” Qassemi on Saturday said Mohammad Zarif and Kerry were leaders of the Javad Zarif and John Kerry’s meeting negotiating teams of Iran and the U.S. was held “within the framework to en- respectively. Turkish warplanes hit pro-Syrian govt forces in Afrin, kill 36 Turkish warplanes have killed at least 36 Human Rights (SOHR) said. pro-Syrian government forces in their air- The pro-Syrian government forces strikes on Syria’s northwestern Kurdish re- entered Afrin last week to repel a Turkish Mohammadreza Abbasi gion of Afrin, a monitoring group affiliated to offensive in Afrin against the Kurdish Peo- Syria’s foreign-based opposition groups says. ple’s Protection Units (YPG) militant group. The Saturday attack was the third This is the first time that Syrian gov- assault by Turkish jets against pro-gov- ernment forces are deployed in the region ernment forces in Afrin over the past two since 2012 when the YPG held the area Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ days, the so-called Syrian Observatory for under its control. 13 EDITORIAL Modern science is compatible with Islamic principles: professor ARTICLE By Mohammad Ghaderi EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW or biology, can they be put together with theolo- all marks of purposive direction. And physics has By Ebrahim Fallahi Tehran Times editor-in-chief Tehran Times journalist By Javad Heirannia gy, social sciences or humanities in one group? developed in the modern era that some have taken @ghaderi62 A: The relationship of science and religion has to support the view that the cosmos is without TEHRAN – Charles Taliaferro, a professor of historically and today been fluid. In the golden age meaning or purpose. The later is, in a sense, a philosophy at St. Olaf College in the U.S., be- of Islam from the 8th to the 13th century religion peculiar claim as physics in the modern era has lieves that modern science is in agreement with and science flourished together, and one can developed explicitly to only concern itself with Destroy your Islamic principles. argue that in the modern age religion has been the physical world in the absence of mind, values, IP gas pipeline: A In an interview with the Tehran Times recently, a positive source for the development of science, purpose. In other words, even Newton, a devout missiles then talk Professor Taliaferro says: “The only problem in especially in the applied science of medicine. In believer in God, only specified that material bodies fading opportunity about ours! terms of epistemology and methodology is if one the West, all the early modern scientists from were attracted to each other in terms of force. As for Pakistan adopted what some today call scientism, the view Kepler to Newton were religious people. There a person, I am sure he did not doubt that human hese days, in an unprecedented way, that only science can provide reliable evidence was little conflict between science and religion bodies are attracted together by love, but as ear 20 years after the initiation the United States is rolling down the for our beliefs about reality.” except for the debate on the position of earth a scientist he bracketed these matters. In my of talks over the peace gas pipe- hill faster than ever towards some Following is the text of the interview with in our solar system, until the development of view, nothing found in physics or biology or the line, beginning as the Iran-Pa- T Professor Taliaferro: evolutionary biology with Darwin. Evolution social sciences rules out a religious worldview, N sort of societal collapse and the waning kistan-India gas pipeline project, and of its international hegemony. In reality, Q: Is religious science possible or impossi- per se was seen by some, such as Alfred Russell and theology can draw on all sorts of recourses despite the fact that Iran has completed the White House “tenants”, relying too ble? Basically, what are the confrontation and Wallace, the co-founder of evolutionary biolo- from the physical and social sciences, from its part of the pipeline in its territory, much on behind the scene think tanks, non-confrontation fields between religion and gy with Darwin, as how God created life, but in Big Bang cosmology to the study of communal Pakistan has fallen behind the target to has wrongly sought the solution in finding science? What about those sciences like physics Darwin’s later work nature was deemed to lack identities. 7 take delivery of gas, initially scheduled allies in the international arena, and not for 2014. by confronting the actual problems. Iran has repeatedly warned Pa- To escape the apparent chaos, Wash- The deadliest nation on earth kistan about not being determined ington has picked the Islamic Republic of By Jack Perry that this weapon remains legal to purchase in weapon but also the “right” to use this weapon about completion of the project, and Iran to blame for its ills. Thus, the western ARIZONA — People around the world are the United States. After all, the United States against people throughout the Middle East to the disputes between the two coun- security services and their Arab allies in the shocked that the same weapon that has been doles out weapons freely to regimes around the allegedly defend that right. At this time, “freedom” tries seem to become more intense in Middle East have spared no effort to create used in nearly every mass murder event in the globe or terrorists trying to oust governments the in the United States means the use of horrifying recent years to an extent that Iran is internal division, turmoil and chaos in Iran United States remains legal to purchase today United States does not like. The United States levels of violence and excusing it when it colors considering taking legal actions in this and to criticize Iran’s unrelated human rights, after the last event in which 17 kids were shot itself is awash in guns. There are roughly 300 outside of the lines with the blood-red crayon. regard or even the total cancelation missile defense and alleged nuclear issues. and killed by a gunman using this weapon. This million privately owned guns in the United States. That being, when a mass shooter opens fire on a of the high-profile, $7-billion project Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- weapon is the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. People That we know of. That doesn’t count illegal guns school, the United States considers that “collateral over lengthy construction delays from yahu’s actions at the Munich Security Confer- who have encountered the United States military or ones made before anyone started counting. damage” that goes along with the so-called right the Pakistani side. ence last month, along with a British-drafted know that this weapon is carried by them. See, Arms manufacturers in the United States count to own this weapon. Just like when the United Whatever decision Iran makes, if resolution against Tehran recently backed the AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16 fam- on both domestic and foreign sales to boost that States military blows up a school, hospital, or it is not going through with the deal, by U.S. Ambassador to United Nations Nikki ily of weapons from which the current military bottom line and, indeed, it is buoyed by blood. wedding party with its guns, that’s also “collateral would deprive energy-starved Pakistan Haley, have all aimed to demonize Iran. M-4 comes. The United States calls this “freedom”. That damage”. I’m sure that brings comfort to the of about 22 million cubic meters of At the conference, Netanyahu, with gas a day it would have received from Be that as it may, people should not be shocked means not just the alleged “right” to purchase this dead in both cases.