Iran news headlines on Wednesday include Iran's Majlis speaker remarks over US seeking to sabotage Iran-P5+1 nuke talks; ban of Turkish gold on fears of link to Iran by Dubai; the Federal Cabinet approval of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline; Iran launching Zafar satellite into space within the next eight months; a senior Iranian official speech on backing ‘terrorist’ groups escalating Syria crisis.
 
US seeking to sabotage Iran-P5+1 talks, Iranian Parliament speaker says
Iranian Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani says Washington is seeking to sabotage the talks between Iran and the P5+1 group when US officials should be making efforts to ensure the negotiations make progress.


In an exclusive interview with the Arabic-language news network Al-Alam on Tuesday, Larijani said the United States is making efforts to create obstacles for the talks between Iran and the P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States, and Germany) in order to prevent the negotiations from bearing fruit.

 
Dubai gold dealers shun Turkish bars on fears of link to Iran
Trade in Turkish gold bars to Iran via Dubai is drying up as a growing number of banks and dealers refuse to buy the bullion to avoid the risks associated with Turkey's gold-for-gas trade with Iran.





US officials say they are concerned the trade between the two countries provides a financial lifeline to the Iran, which is largely frozen out of the global banking system by Western sanctions.

 
Cabinet approves Pak-Iran gas pipeline
The Federal Cabinet has given final approval to the Pak-Iran gas pipeline project, rejecting any pressure regarding the project.

According to sources, the Federal Cabinet was informed that the construction of the Pak-Iran gas pipeline will be completed by January 2015 and Iran will give Pakistan $500 million at two different phases for the completion of the plan.

 
Iran to launch Zafar satellite in eight months
The president of Iran’s University of Science and Technology says the Islamic Republic plans to send its domestically-produced satellite Zafar (Triumph) into space within the next eight months.


Saeed Jabal-Ameli told reporters on Wednesday that the satellite would be launched into space by the summer of the Iranian year 1392 (September 2013).

 
Backing ‘terrorist’ groups escalates Syria crisis: Iran
A senior Iranian official said Wednesday that those backing “terrorist” groups are responsible for the fighting and killings in Syria, as he repeated Tehran’s support of the Syrian regime.

“Iran believes that the cause of the Syrian crisis is the sending of arms to terrorist groups into Syria by some countries,” Amir Hussein Abdullahian, the Iranian foreign ministry’s undersecretary for Arab and African affairs, told a press conference in Kuwait.

 

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