Iran Daily

 

Iran launches biggest gas phase
Iran officially launched the biggest phase of the giant offshore South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf.

 

Iran upbeat about nuclear deal

Iran’s top nuclear official said his government’s main disagreements with the US and its negotiating partners have been resolved and expressed optimism about meeting a late March deadline for reaching a framework nuclear deal.

 

Veep: Iranian women active in gov’t, parliament

Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi says Iran is among countries where women play an active role in the government and parliament.

 

Nigeria clashes claim over 80 lives

A weekend attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen on a farming village in central Nigeria’s Benue state left 82 dead, a police spokesman said on Tuesday, giving an updated toll from the earlier figure of 45.

 

Terrorism increasing in Afghanistan

The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has warned that the recent rise in armed attacks and acts of terror in Afghanistan should be a matter of deep concern for all regional countries.

 

American poll: Republican letter went too far

Americans broadly back direct negotiations with Iran about the country’s nuclear program, saying some Republican senators went too far by sending a letter to Iran’s leaders, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

 

Tehran Times

 

Obama: ISIL is direct outgrowth of U.S. invasion of Iraq

In a TV interview with VICE News on March 17, U.S. Pres- ident Barack Obama said the Islamic State in Iraq and the Le- vant (ISIL) is a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

 

Israel votes in poll seen as referendum on Netanyahu

Israelis head to the polls in a crucial election seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ruled out a Pales- tinian state as part of a last-ditch appeal to right-wing voters.

 

Libyan general vows to recapture Benghazi in a month

The army chief of Libya’s interna- tionally recognized government in Tobruk says his forces will retake the major city of Benghazi from rival militants in a matter of a month.

 

ISIL in Iraq beheads four allegedly recruiting for volunteer ?ghters

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Le- vant (ISIL) Tak?ri terrorists have ex- ecuted four people for allegedly re- cruiting ?ghters for pro-government forces in Iraq’s northern province of Salahuddin (Saladin Governorate).

 

Russia to deploy long-range nuclear bombers to Crimea for drills

O?cials in Moscow have announced plans to send some of their strategic missile-carriers to Crimea a year after the peninsula separated from Ukraine and rejoined the Russian Federation.

 

Nuclear agreement is more probable than before: MP

Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Tuesday that reaching an agreement in current round of nuclear talks is more probable than before.

 

Insecurity will lay the ground for ISIL presence in Afghanistan, Iran warns

The Iranian ambassa- dor and permanent representa- tive to the UN has warned that “insecurity, insta- bility and poverty” lay the grounds for presence of extremist and violence-seeking groups, including ISIL, in Afghanistan.

 

Americans broadly back direct talks with Iran: CNN/ORC poll

Americans broadly back direct negotiations with Iran about that country’s nuclear program, accord- ing to a new CNN/ORC poll.

 

U.S. Oil companies taking position against GOP letter will be rewarded: of?cial

Head of Iranian Ministry of Petroleum’s Oil Contracts Revi- sion Committee says the U.S. oil companies taking position against Republican senators who recently wrote a letter warning Iran against a nuclear deal with the U.S. will be rewarded.

 

Is Obama’s Iran overture like Nixon’s opening to China?

In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, President Obama defended his overture to Iran and other foes by citing President Richard Nixon’s opening to China in 1972.