Iran Daily
 
President: West has no choice but to remove sanctions
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the West has no other choice but to lift the �cruel� sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

 
South Korea�s Iran oil imports up 6.5%
South Korea�s imports of Iranian crude oil rose 6.5 percent in November from a year earlier, but shipments for the first 11 months of the year were still below the 2013 average.

Australian Muslims condemn hostage taking in Sydney
More than 40 Australian Muslim groups strongly condemned the acts of gunmen who held an undisclosed number of people hostage at a chocolate shop and cafe in the country�s most populous city of Sydney.

 
Tehran hosts int�l seminar on impacts of sanctions on human rights
An international seminar on impacts of economic sanctions on human rights opened in Tehran on Monday.

Velayati: Iran regional influence undeniable
Head of Iran�s Expediency Council�s Strategic Research Center Ali Akbar Velayati said the country�s regional influence cannot be denied by others.

 
Syrian PM in Iran for talks
Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials.

 
Tehran Times
 
Rouhani says �cruel chain� of sanctions will be broken
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that the �cruel chain� of sanctions against Iran will ?nally be broken.

 
Hostages held in Sydney cafe siege
Five people escaped from a cafe where a man has an unknown number of hostages in the heart of Sydney�s financial and shopping district.

 
VP calls sanctions examples of �international crime�
Sanctions imposed unilaterally against nations can be regarded as an instance of �international crime�, the Iranian vice-president for legal a?airs said on Monday.

 
Israeli PM rejects Palestinian UN bid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday angrily rejected a Palestinian bid to set a UN deadline for an end to Isra- el�s occupation as he headed to Rome for high-stakes talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Ker- ry, AFP reports.

 
Saudi security officer killed in Riyadh
A security o?cer has been killed by an armed man holding three laborers hostage in Saudi capital, Riyadh after police tried to free the captives, authorities in Saudi Arabia said, according to Al Jazeera.

 
Our current power was not imaginable to anybody: Iran�s Velayati
Ali Akbar Velayati, the director of the Strategic Research Center at the Expediency Council, said on Monday that Iran�s sphere of in?uence extends from Yemen to Lebanon.

 
Iran, another challenge for U.S. leaders
In an article published on the website of the Still- water News Press on Sunday the writer Harold Sare says Washington�s relations with Iran have been a challenge for many years.

 
Iran, Afghanistan seek to boost security in border areas
Iranian and Afghan border guard commanders have discussed ways to increase cooperation in preventing illegal border crossing and drug tra?cking.