Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events:
 
No deal under new oil contracts, Iran’s oil minister says
An Iranian lawmaker quoted Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh as saying that the country has not signed any deal with foreign customers using a new model of oil contracts, giving an assurance that the much-questioned model will be revised.

 
Top security official: Iran not to tolerate actions against spirit of N. deal
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned the world powers against the country’s reaction to the violation of the last year nuclear deal or any resistance against the removal of sanctions.

 
Velayati: Iranian-Russian defense coop. ‘not unexpected’
Adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said Russian and Iranian military cooperation which is defensive should not provoke shock and awe in the international community as an unexpected development.

 
‘No Iranian military base given to any country’
Iran’s Parliament Speaker on Wed. dismissed any claims that an Iranian military base has ever been given to Russia or any other country.

 
‘US gave another $1.3 billion of Iran money’
US payment of $400 million of Iranian money which sparked outcry among American politicians was followed by another transfer of $1.3 billion, it has been reported.

 
Russian planes took off from Iranian airdrome to eliminate 150 militants in Syria
Russia’s Sukhoi-34 bombers carrying the maximum payload of high explosive fragmentation bombs OFAB-500 dealt a massive air strike against terrorist facilities in Syria.

 
Iran denies reports on arrest of European diplomats
An informed source at the Iranian Foreign Ministry dismissed reports on detention of two European diplomats by police forces in a western province of the country.

 

Iranian FM to visit Latin America to defuse Israel’s Iranophobia plots
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to visit 6 Latin American states next week to further expand bilateral relations and foil the Iranophobia plots promoted by Israel.

 



Lavrov: Russia not violating UNSC resolution by deploying jets to Iran
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is not violating a UN Security Council resolution by deploying jets to Iran to carry out strikes against terrorists in Syria.


 
Official lashes out at Jury’s ‘misjudgment’ in Olympics weightlifting contest
Head of Iran Weightlifting Federation Ali Moradi said that the Jury’s ‘unjust’ decision against Iranian weightlifter Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi will certainly be recoded in the history.