Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events:
 
Cabinet ministers ratify new oil, gas draft contracts
Cabinet ministers on Wednesday ratified a draft on general conditions, structure and models of upstream oil and gas contracts in a meeting attended by President Hassan Rouhani.

Iran slams UN for yielding to Israel, Saudi pressures
Iran’s UN envoy criticized the UN for yielding to undue pressures and lobbying from Israel and Saudi Arabia in the face of children killed and their homes destroyed.

 
US no longer trusted by ‘our nation’
Iran’s Hassan Rouhani has told the nation topics other than nuclear program would be negotiated with the US if she had acted with good faith in JCPOA implementation.

 
Iran’s non-oil exports in 4 months show 21% year-on-year rise: 1st VP
Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri says the country’s non-oil exports during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 20) showed a 21 percent increase in comparison with similar period the previous year.

 
Iran executes members of terrorist group
Iran executed members of a terrorist group dubbed Tohind and Jahad’who had already been charged with terrorist moves.

Rouhani: More talks possible if US fully meets JCPOA commitments
President Hassan Rouhani says if the United States remains fully committed to the JCPOA there will be possibility for more negotiations.

 
Islamic human rights attaches importance to democracy, cultural diversity
Secretary of High Council for Human Rights affiliated to the Judiciary said democracy and cultural diversity have special status in the Islamic Human Rights.

 
U.S. sent cash to Iran as Americans were freed
The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.

 
Iran’s Rouhani shelves civil service exam over female discrimination
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has postponed the annual civil service entry exam because of concerns it discriminates against women.

 
Iran, Russia stress widening cooperation in peaceful N. energy
Rosatom Deputy Director General Nikolay Spassky met with Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi.