WWW.TEHRANTIMES.COM I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y Pages Price 40,000 Rials 1.00 EURO 4.00 AED 39th year No.13444 Wednesday JULY 24, 2019 Mordad 2, 1398 Dhi Al Qada 21, 1440 Fighting smuggling World acknowledging Hashd al-Sha’abiis Iran crowned Asian should become Iran’s intelligence an undeniable fact: Junior Taekwondo systematic 2 power 2 Iraqi PM 13 champion 15 Iran-Iraq $20b trade target not Fake plans against Palestinians out of reach: CBI governor TEHRAN – Governor of Central Bank expansion of trade,” Hemmati wrote in an of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati Instagram post after meeting with Fuad. held talks with Iraqi Finance Minister “The development of monetary and fi- Fuad Mohammed Hussein on Monday nancial relations between the two countries will yield no fruit: Shamkhani night to discuss expansion of banking will play an important role in furthering relations between the two countries, this goal as soon as possible,” he stressed. Any act against Iran is an act against resistance front, says Hamas official IRNA reported. Fuad visited Iran along with a “The two countries’ $20-billion trade high-ranking trade delegation headed See page 2 target is easily attainable if the two sides by the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Ab- expand their banking relations to facilitate dul-Mahdi. 4 See page 2 Majlis urges release of prominent cleric Zakzaky TEHRAN — A number of Iranian MPs his left eyesight. issued a statement on Tuesday urging re- The raid by security forces that left lease of Nigerian Muslim cleric Sheikh more than 300 of his followers and three Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. of his sons dead. His wife also sustained The statement was signed by 198 serious wounds. lawmakers. In 2016, Nigeria’s federal high court Zakzaky is the leader of the Islamic ordered Zakzaky’s unconditional re- Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and has lease from jail following a trial, but been detained since December 2015 in the government has so far refused to a raid on his residence in which he lost set him free. 3 Afghanistan wants explanation after Trump’s ‘wipe out’ rant TEHRAN — The Afghan government stan “in a week” but did not want to wipe has demanded an explanation from the the country “off the face of the Earth.” United States following an assertion “I just don’t want to kill 10 million by U.S. President Donald Trump who people,” Trump said. suggested that the U.S. could end the In response, Sediq Sediqi, a spokesman long war in Afghanistan by effectively for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said on nuking it. Tuesday that Kabul had sought an explana- Abdolvahed Mirzazadeh Abdolvahed Ahead of a meeting with Pakistani Prime tion regarding Trump’s remarks through Minister Imran Khan on Monday, Trump diplomatic channels, considering the com- ISNA/ told reporters at the White House that he prehensive bilateral ties between the two could win the prolonged war in Afghani- nations, Press TV reported. 13 ARTICLE Another big blunder: Trump maybe mistaking humans with insects ARTICLE By Hossein Askari By M.A.Saki to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off Such awful remarks, though a huge blunder, Batool Subeiti George Washington University Consequent to his continued reckless remarks, Don- the face of the Earth,” Trump added. are a humiliation of the Afghan nation and a Journalist professor ald Trump claimed on Monday that if he wanted By such remarks Trump either is indirectly shock to the world. from London to win the war in Afghanistan he could wipe the threatening to use banned weapons, such a nu- Even with weapons of mass destruction, it is country “off the face of the earth” but he chose not. clear arms, against his adversaries or that he is difficult to imagine killing 10 million Afghans in a Follow the leader — “If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan mistaking humans with insects. week. Nearly three-quarters of the Afghan 36-million Why world needs and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just Such a statement is highly appalling and dis- population live in rural and often remote areas. To the UK’s Ill-advised don’t want to kill 10 million people,” Trump said. gusting. How can such words come out of the kill such number of people, it means to nuke or gas to speak for Sheikh piracy on the high seas “I have plans on Afghanistan that if I wanted mouth of a president? almost the entire Afghanistan. 13 Zakzaky he United Kingdom should recognize heikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, leader what has become its position in the Ferdowsi, Shahnameh and Kashmir of the Islamic Movement in Ni- Tworld — an important nation with By Quayyum Raja Masumeh told me how Ferdowsi protected competed with each other on changing our identity Sgeria (IMN), and members of his organization faced a brutal crackdown an imperialistic history but now a much Since I often had discussed Sadi, Rumi, Ghazali and promoted Persian. She also mentioned the by imposing their own syllabus. in December 2015 in what came to be diminished global power. Blindly following and wrote an article describing my experiences Shahnameh, which took me back to the early Pakistan has now imported a syllabus from known as the Zaria massacre. It was the United States into hazardous waters at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad where I am 1970s when my sister-in-law used to teach me Britain making English the language of instruction. carried out by the Nigerian Army at the could have dangerous results: America learning Persian, a Ph.D. student named Masumeh selected verses from the Shahnameh. Before I I do not object to learning English as a language behest of the Nigerian regime and its might not reward subservience or could Mahmudi was kind enough to take me for a visit became old enough to grasp the concepts of the of choice, but I believe that it is an injustice to our foreign backers in which over a thou- change course in its own self-interest. to the resting place of Ferdowsi and Ghazali in Shahnameh and its historical background, Pa- children to have English--which they don’t speak sand civilians, mostly followers of the While following George Bush into Iraq Tus on July 18, 2019. I had no idea that this visit kistan changed the Kashmiri syllabus in its part at home--imposed upon them as a language of movement, were slaughtered in cold is now widely conceded in the UK as having would take me back to my childhood. of Jammu Kashmir, as did India. Both occupiers instruction. 16 been ill advised, British leaders seem to blood and hundreds more were arrested. have forgotten the consequences of that Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife, Muallima disastrous decision. Zeenah, were shot during a deadly raid at On July 4, UK forces seized an Ira- Iran Is Almost Certainly Telling the Truth about CIA Spies update their home by the Nigerian authorities, in nian supertanker, Grace I, off the coast By Robert Steele was not being held to “Moscow rules” standards, rier electromagnetically without actually killing which three of their children were mowed of Gibraltar. At first, the reason for the down in front of their eyes. A total of six of I believe the Iranians are telling the truth about never mind the polygraph being worthless against anyone or sinking the ship — they have moved seizure in news reports was that Lon- their sons have been killed by the Nigerian having captured a number of Iranian traitors, properly trained double-agents. into a new dimension of war that avoids arousing don was responding to a request from Army, in addition to Sheikh Zakzaky’s and about having photographic and other (audio The Cubans subsequently released a made for TV the American public while totally frustrating the the United States because the tanker sister, Malama Binta Yaqoub, who was visual) evidence showing their CIA clandestine movie showing my classmates actively performing US military-intelligence complex. was carrying oil to the Syrian refinery burnt alive, along with many other women case officer handlers. clandestine operations in Cuba. Bummer. If I were asked today whom to believe — Mike of Banias in violation of UN sanctions. and children. Everyone forgets that two of my classmates, CIA has never been serious about counter- Pompeo or anyone speaking for Iran — it is a This report was quickly ‘corrected’ by Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife have since Jay and Lane, were video-taped by the Cuban surveillance outside of Moscow, and it has never no-brainer. Pompeo is a lying lard-ass who sold Jeffrey Hunt, the UK Foreign Minister. then been unlawfully detained, despite the intelligence service, in Cuba, because all of our been serious about counterintelligence gener- his soul to the Zionists for a pump to State, and he The official word was that the Iranian Federal High Court in Abuja ruling their Cuban agents passed the polygraph but were in ally. I believe the Iranians noticed the Cuban has no idea where to find the truth about anything. vessel had been seized yes because the detention as illegal and ordering Zakzaky’s fact double-agents — Cuba knew all of the dead triumph, and have been patiently waiting to drop If he and Gina Haspel are lying to our President, oil was destined for Syria, but which was unconditional release from jail following drops, all of the signal sites, they had it all. As the network while not harming any US spies who has just made a total ass of himself publicly in violation of EU (not UN) sanctions on a trial.