Iran Daily

 

Leader: All sanctions must be lifted once deal signed
Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday all sanctions imposed on Tehran must be lifted as soon as the final agreement is reached on Iran’s nuclear program.

 

Russia slams NATO move to cap mission
A move by NATO to cap the size of Russia’s diplomatic mission at the alliance’s Brussels headquarters has echoes of the Cold War, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said on Friday.

 

Bomb blasts kill 15 Afghan civilians
A car bomber targeting foreign troops killed three Afghan civilians on Friday, while a dozen people on their way to a wedding were killed in a separate roadside blast, officials said.

 

Highest-level US-Cuba meeting in over 50 years
The US and Cuban foreign ministers sat down for talks on Thursday night in the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the early days of the Cuban revolution more than half a century ago.

 

Iran unveils nuclear achievements
Iran has marked the National Nuclear Technology Day by unveiling its latest nuclear achievements.

 

Deputy FM, Hezbollah chief discuss Yemen
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi discussed developments in Yemen where Saudi Arabia is conducting military strikes.

 

AEOI chief: Iran can resume 20% enrichment
Tehran can resume uranium enrichment to the 20 percent purity level, if the P5+1 group reneges on its obligations under a potential final deal over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, said the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

 

Terrorists kill two IRGC officers
Terrorists have killed two signal officers working for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) near the southeastern border with Pakistan.

 

Tehran Times

 

Leader says not optimistic about nuclear talks with U.S. but backs them

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that he has never been “optimistic” about nuclear talks with the U.S. but he supports negotiations.

 

Pakistani parliament votes to stay out of Yemen conflict

Pakistani parliament on Friday decided not to join the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen, with lawmak- ers adopting a resolution that calls on the warring parties in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state to resolve the con?ict through peace- ful dialogue.

 

China to build $2 billion Iran- Pakistan pipeline

China will build a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran to Pakistan to help address Pakistan’s acute energy shortage, under a deal to be signed during the Chinese president’s visit to Islamabad this month, Pakistani o?cials said.

 

Saudi warplanes batter Yemen with most intense raids

Saudi-led warplanes have bat- tered southern Yemen over- night in the most intense air raids since the launch of a campaign against the impoverished state last month, local residents say.

 

Bomb attacks kill 15 people in, around Iraqi capital

Police and medical o?cials in Iraq say at least 15 people have been killed and tens of others injured in separate bomb explosions that struck areas in and around the capital, Baghdad.

 

Palestinians to join fight against ISIL in Yarmouk

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has called for action to prevent a massacre of Palestinian refugees in Syria’s Yarmouk camp, just after all Palestinian factions agreed with the Syrian government to use military force to expel the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group ?ghters from the embattled Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

 

Iran unveils radio-medicines and nuclear fuel assembly on Nuclear Technology Day

In a ceremony in Tehran on Thursday Iran marked National Nuclear Technology Day in which it unveiled three radio-medicines and a nu- clear fuel assembly for power reactors among other accomplishments.

 

If necessary Iran will extend time for final nuclear deal: negotiator

A leading Iranian nuclear negotiator says if a nuclear agreement favorable to the Supreme Leader is not gained Iran will not bind itself to the time and will extend the duration of the talks with great powers.

 

Iran to build 50 and 100-megawatt nuclear power plants

The director of the Atomic Energy Organization says Iran plans to build 50 and 100-megawatt nuclear power plants across the country.

 

Zarif urges countries to avoid involvement in Yemen crisis

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated on Tehran’s position that it is necessary to settle the ongoing crises in the region, especially the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the Saudi-led war on Yemen.