29 Mar 2024
Saturday 15 November 2014 - 11:32
Story Code : 129696

Iran English language newspaper headlines on Saturday, 15-11-2014

Iran Daily
 
US relying on Leader nuclear Fatwa to get deal done
In a show of strong determination to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, US President Barack Obamas administration officials are citing the fatwa by the Iranian Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei prohibiting nuclear weapons.

 
Intl press expo wraps up
The 20th International Exhibition of the Press, News Agencies and Information Websites ended on Friday in Tehran.

 
Gas production capacity to rise by 50 mcm
Irans gas production capacity will increase by 50 million cubic meters a day next month, managing director of Iran National Gas Company said.

 
UN: ISIL commanders for mass war crimes
Commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group are liable for war crimes on a massive scale in northeast Syria where they spread terror by beheading, stoning and shooting civilians and captured fighters, UN investigators said on Friday.

 
Afghan president visits Pakistan
Afghanistans new president, Ashraf Ghani, arrived Friday in Pakistan for a two-day visit aimed at improving ties between the two neighbors often encumbered by mutual suspicion and accusations.

IAEA corrects data on Irans uranium stockpile
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has corrected its earlier estimate of the size of Tehrans uranium stockpile.

 
French official stresses Iran cooperation on Mideast
A senior French official has described Iran as a key partner in the Middle East, underlining the need for Paris-Tehran cooperation in resolving regional issues.

 
Tehran Times
 
Iraq starts up Iran-made power plant near Najaf
Iraq has inaugurated a 162-MW power plant made by Iranians near the southern city of Najaf.

 
Positive outlook of President Rouhanis Baku visit
Iranian President Has- san Rouhani, at the head of a delegation, travelled to Baku late last week upon an o?cial invitation from his Azerbaijani coun- terpart, Ilham Aliyev. The trip drew regional and international attention to the expansion of Tehran-Baku ties, and outlined the roadmap for their future bilateral interactions.

 
Road fatalities in Iran have been declining 35% since 2006
On the occasion of the 12-day plan to improve road safety, the Tehran Times got to sit with the social advisor to the transport and urban development minister to discuss road tra?c crashes and e?orts to largely reduce road accidents that took the lives of 18,000 Iranians last year (March 2013-March 2014) and left many more injured.

 
Iraqi troops gain full control of Baiji oil town
Iraqi government forces on Fri- day drove the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) mili- tants out from their remaining strongholds inside the oil re- ?nery town of Baiji, two secu- rity o?cial said, in a key victory over the terror group that has captured much of northern and western Iraq in a stunning sum- mer o?ensive.

 
Final deal in Iran nuclear talks unlikely by deadline: sources
Despite nearly a year of negotiations, Iran and six major powers are unlikely to meet a Nov. 24 deadline to reach a ?nal deal on Irans nuclear energy program, Reuters re- ported.

 
Israeli plan to assassinate Hezbollah chief failed: Fars news agency
The Iranian Fars news agency quot- ing the Dutch daily De Telegraaf re- porting that a recent Israeli plan to assassinate the Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has failed.

 
Rouhani says sanction is a rusted weapon
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that economic sanc- tion is a rusted weapon which does not work anymore.

 
Republicans try to force sanctions against Iran, but fail
Republican lawmakers tried to force a vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday on a bill to impose tough new sanctions on Iran if negotiators do not reach what they see as an acceptable nuclear deal, but the measure failed to move ahead, Reuters reported.

 
Iran criticizes IAEAs performance
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has slammed performance of the International Atomic Energy Agen- cy, IRNA reported on Friday.

 
Vatican responds to Iranian ayatollahs call for cooperation between religious leaders
President of the Ponti?- cal Council for Interreligious Dia- logue at Vatican Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has sent a letter to Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi in response to a previously letter written by the Iranian grand ayatollah.

 
Iran says new centrifuge testing not in violation of Geneva deal
Iran has con?rmed it tested a new centrifuge that could speed up its enrich- ment of uranium but rejected that move may have violated last years nuclear deal with world powers, Reuters reports.

 
I hope we will be able to achieve nuclear deal by Nov. 24: Fabius
France said on Thursday that important questions still needed to be resolved regarding Irans nuclear pro- gram but that it hoped to reach an agreement by Nov. 24, Reuters reported.

 
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