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Zarif: Removal of sanctions main theme of Muscat talks
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Zarif said Sunday the removal of sanctions is a main theme of the Muscat talks, noting that the extent of Iran’s enrichment activities is another key topic in the negotiations.

 
Oman FM: Anti-Iran stance not to benefit Persian Gulf Arabs
Omani Foreign Minister Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah has criticized the hostile policies of some Persian Gulf Arab states vis-à-vis neighboring Iran, saying this behavior will not serve their interests.


US official: Congress has no authority to reject nuclear deal
A former American ambassador to the European Union has stressed that the Congress has no authority to reject a possible comprehensive nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers.

 
Iranian stands 2nd at world karate meet
Iranian karateka Sajjad Ganjzadeh was defeated by his Turkish rival Enes Erkan in the final of +84kg division.

 
More than 1,000 killed in battle for Syria’s Kobani
More than 1,000 people, mostly terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, have been killed in Kobani since the terrorist group launched an offensive on the Syrian town nearly two months ago, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday.

Catalans hold symbolic independence vote
Spain’s Catalonia region voted in a symbolic ballot Sunday on whether to break away as an independent state, defying fierce challenges by the Spanish government.

 
Tehran decries reimposition of EU sanctions
Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday slammed as ‘questionable’ the decision by the Council of the European Union to once again include a number of Iranian organizations and individuals on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures.

 
Salehi due in Russia for talks with Rosatom
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi will travel to Moscow on Tuesday for talks with chief executive officer of Russian state company Rosatom.

Iran key to resolving Mideast crises
Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has stressed that resolving crises in the Middle East without Iran’s help is ‘impossible’.

 
Velayati, Kuwaiti team discuss regional issues
Head of the Expediency Council’s Strategic Center discussed regional developments with a visiting delegation of Kuwaiti political and cultural elites on Sunday.

 
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Zarif, Kerry, Ashton hold key nuclear talks in Oman
Iranian For- eign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, U.S. Secretary of State John Ker- ry, and European Union envoy Catherine Ashton met at Muscat’s Al Bustan Palace on Sunday to discuss the progress of the nucle- ar negotiations and to exchange views on the outstanding issues hindering a ?nal deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

 
Iran signs aviation MOU with Portugal, ?rst with EU nation in 35 years
Iran has signed a memorandum of understand- ing with Portugal, which is the first of its kind with a European Union country since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.

 
Hostility with Iran does not serve Persian Gulf Arab states’ interests: Omani FM
In an interview with Asharq Al-Aw- sat daily published on Sunday, Oma- ni Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Ala- wi Bin Abdullah said “it is not in the interests” of the Persian Gulf Arab states to “unite against a state like Iran”.

 
CIA was aware of 2007 terror attack in Iran: NY Times
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was notified that a no- torious terrorist group was planning a big operation in Iran before it happened in 2007, ac- cording to a new report by the New York Times.

 
Congress unlikely to scuttle deal if Iran and U.S. reach nuclear agreement: Georgetown professor
Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, says if Iran and the U.S. succeed to broker a nuclear agreement it would be unlikely that the Republican-controlled Con- gress “scuttle” the deal.

 
Iran calls new EU sanctions ‘questionable’
The Ira- nian Foreign Min- istry has censured the European Un- ion’s recent move in posing further sanctions on some Iranian organiza- tions, calling it a “questionable act”.

 
Iranian and Omani FMs hold talks on threats of terrorist groups
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Om- ani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdallah in Muscat on Sunday prior to the start of nuclear talks.

 
Iranian MPs call for total lifting of sanctions, no limit in uranium enrichment
More than 200 Iranian MPs issued a statement on Sunday, calling for a total removal of sanc- tions, acceptance of no restriction on uranium enrichment, and no in- spections of the Iranian nuclear ac- tivities “beyond the NPT”.

 
Iran’s Salehi to visit Moscow
Atomic Energy Organiza- tion of Iran director Ali Akbar Salehi is scheduled to go to Moscow on No- vember 11.

 
Iran is Middle East’s new winner: Joschka Fischer
Iran is “the biggest regional winner”, whose cooperation “is essential to stable solutions in Iraq and Syria and the country plays an important role in the Israel-Palestine con?ict and in Lebanon,” Germany’s former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer says.

 
U.S. experts disagree Iran violated nuclear deal: Reuters
The Washington-based Arms Control Association, a research and advocacy group, says it did not record any viola- tion by Iran of last year’s interim nucle- ar deal with world powers by stepping up e?orts to develop a machine that could enrich uranium faster, adding that “no enriched uranium is being withdrawn from the machine”.

 
Ex-IRIB chief granted membership in top cultural and cyberspace bodies
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, in a decree published on Sunday, ap- pointed former Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcast- ing chief Ezzatollah Zarghami as member of the Su- preme Council of Cultural Revolution as well as the Supreme Council Cyberspace (SCC).