Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events:

Iran’s missile capability not negotiable: Velayati
Iran’s missile capability is not for bargain, Head of Strategic Research Department of the Expediency Council Ali Akbar Velayati said on Monday.

Iranian negotiators in Geneva for N. talks
Iranian nuclear negotiators left for Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday to continue talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.

 
Int’l conference in Tehran to challenge sanctions against world states
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plans to hold an international conference in Tehran on Monday and Tuesday in which the legal basis of sanctions and their negative impacts on the development of world states will be discussed.

World has no option but to sit behind table of talks, says Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated on Monday that the world has no alternative but to sit behind the table of talks with Iran.

Official: Falling oil prices a plot connected to Iran nuclear program
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani on Monday said that the plunge in oil prices is a plot, part of which is hatched by those seeking excessive demands in nuclear talks with Iran.

 
S.Korea’s Iran oil imports up, but not breaching sanctions
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, in line with international sanction requirements.

 
Iran saffron exports surpass $115 million
Iran has exported $116 million of saffron in the first eight months of Iranian calendar year, started on March 21, 2014.

 
Iran terms unilateral sanctions against world states ‘Int’l crime’
All-out sanctions imposed unilaterally against world nations can be regarded as an international crime, Iranian vice-president for legal affairs said on Monday.

Iran to hold Resistance Film Festival in India
 Iran is planning to hold a Resistance Film Festival and workshop in the Indian capital city of New Delhi.
Iranian official voices displeasure in extension of talks with G5+1
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani expressed displeasure in the 7-month-long extension of the nuclear talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), saying the US aims to lay more pressure on Iran during this period.

 

The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.