Iranian newspapers on Saturday were dominated by the Supreme Leader�s speech at a meeting with Basij volunteers on nuclear talks in which he supported the country�s negotiating team, and the decision to extend the talks for seven months. Newsweek�s cover story on Major General Ghasem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps� Quds Force, and his role in crushing ISIS in Iraq appeared on the front pages of several dailies too. Also in the news were the 166th�session of OPEC in Vienna and its decision to maintain the current output ceiling, something which sent crude prices tumbling on world markets.
Abrar:��We will cross all passes and emerge victorious,� said President Rouhani.
Abrar-e Eghtesadi:�Lukoil, Russia�s second largest oil company, seeks to return to Iranian market.
Afarinesh:�President Rouhani has invited his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay a visit to Iran.
Afarinesh:��Nuclear talks will move into positive territory,� said Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Ali Larijani.
Arman-e Emrooz:��The responsibility to promote virtue cannot be delegated to a certain group. University students are duty-bound to correct deviations,� said Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the late Imam Khomeini.
Asrar�reports that parliament continues to stand its ground as far as calls for raising the powers of the justice minister go.
Ebtekar:��For the first time in history, all Iranians have been given healthcare insurance coverage,� said Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Hashemi.
Ebtekar:��A trip by [Ayatollah] Hashemi Rafsanjani to Saudi Arabia holds the key to a breakthrough in [nuclear] talks and will help solve regional problems,� said Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani, a senior Shiite cleric.
Ebtekar:�Value added tax (VAT) will not be raised next year [starting March 21, 2015].
Emtiaz�quoted a Tehran deputy mayor as saying that free Wi-Fi Internet will be made available on board public buses in the capital.
Emtiaz:�Four new police stations will be set up in the capital by the end of this year [ending March 2015],� said Tehran�s Police Chief Hossein Sajedinia.
Ettela�at:��All hospitals across the country will be given a facelift by yearend [March 20, 2015],� said the health minister.
Hemayat:�Bime Razi, Iran�s representative in the World Wrestling Clubs Cup �held in the northern Iranian city of Jouybar (Nov. 26-28) � beat the US to claim the title in freestyle discipline.
Iran:��The [Iranian] negotiating team is hardworking, sympathetic, steadfast and logical. The inconclusiveness of the talks will be to the detriment of the US. I do not disapprove of the extension of the talks,� said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Jahan-e Sanat:��Iran will accept rational and fair words,� said the Supreme Leader.
Kaenat�put the cover story of Newsweek: �Nemesis: First He Fought America. Now He�s Crushing ISIS� on its front-page and underlined the praise the American weekly news magazine heaped on Commander of the Quds Force, Major General Ghasem Soleimani [for his role in tackling ISIS in Iraq].
Khorasan:��Iran will soon build its own fuel rods for the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant,� said Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi.
Roozan:�Iran and Total S.A., a French multinational integrated oil and gas company, have opened talks on oil trade.
Roozan:�A 32-volume report on forms of domestic violence, which had been compiled when reformists were in power in Iran, went missing during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Sepid:��That [life-saving] medical supplies and medicines were exempted from sanctions [against Iran] was a sheer lie,� said the health minister.
Shahrvand:�Plummeting oil prices and a rise in gold prices came in the immediate aftermath of a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) not to reduce production.
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