Tehran Times
 
Egypt’s Morsi on the edge
President Mohamed Morsi clung to o?ce on Tuesday after rebu?ng an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt's political crisis, and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood sought to mass its supporters to defend him.

 
UAE sentences 69 in mass coup plot trial
More than 65 suspects accused of plotting a coup in the United Arab Emirates received prison sentences of up to 15 years on Tuesday in a mass trial that underscored the widening crackdowns on perceived Arab Springinspired dissent across the entire Persian Gulf Arab region.

 
Iran-Russia cooperation bene?ts energy market, Ahmadinejad tells Putin
Cooperation and coordination between Iran and Russia positively a?ects their relations and the global energy market, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

 
Top Vatican Bank of?cials resign
The director and deputy director of the Vatican Bank have resigned after a senior Italian priest with close ties to the bank was arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption.

 
WFP welcomes French aid to Afghan, Iraqi refugees in Iran
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday warmly welcomed a contribution from the French government for its refugee operation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the WFP o?ce in Tehran said in a press release.

 
Snowden needs "world's protection", Venezuelan leader says
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor, deserved the "world's protection" for divulging details of Washington's spy program.

 
Afghanistan: The quest for a “decent interval”
History does not exactly repeat itself: the ?nal outcome of the American intervention in Afghanistan will not be the same as the end
result in Vietnam. But the negotiations between the United States and its Taliban enemy that are lurching into motion in Qatar as the
U.S. prepares to pull out of Afghanistan next year are eerily similar to the “Paris peace talks” that paved the way for the U.S. military withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1973.

 
Iran says increased sanctions complicate nuclear issue
Iran has criticized the new round of U.S. sanctions which came into e?ect on Monday, saying that imposing and intensifying sanctions is a failed policy, which only complicates Iran’s nuclear issue.

 
Iran urges IAEA to deal with cyber attacks on nuclear facilities
Iran has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to step up its efforts to deal with the threat posed by cyber attacks to the nuclear facilities of member states.

 
Iran and West should engage in serious talks: former nuclear chief
It is time for Iran and the West to enter serious negotiations and take confidence-building measures to settle the long-running dispute over Tehran’s nuclear activities, according to a former Iranian nuclear official.

 
U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee seeking further sanctions on Iran
In a show of bipartisan consensus, all but one member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee signed a letter to President Obama on Monday calling for him to increase pressure on Iran to persuade it to curb its nuclear program, the Washington Times reported.

 
‘Iran holding Slovaks on charges of taking photos from restricted areas’
Iran has detained a number of Slovak citizens on suspicion of importing illicit equipment into Iran to take photos from prohibited areas which is a violation of the country’s laws, National Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said on Monday.

 
Iran will expand ties with neighboring countries: Rohani
Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani says expanding relations with neighboring countries and strengthening regional ties are among the foreign policy priorities of the next Iranian administration.

 

 
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Ahmadinejad: GECF Turning Into Powerful Organization
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is growing into a powerful organization and a bright future awaits it.

 
Memorial Ceremony Held for Egypt’s Slain Shiite Leader
A memorial ceremony was held in Tehran for the prominent Egyptian Shiite cleric Sheikh Hassan Shehata and four of his devotees, killed in a brutal attack carried out by Takfiri extremists in Egypt’s Giza province.

 
Egypt in Crisis as Ministers Submit Resignations
Egypt’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday as President Mohamed Morsi snubbed an army ultimatum threatening to intervene if he did not meet the demands of the people, and five ministers led a spate of government resignations.

 
WB Committed To End Poverty
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is preparing an overhaul of the lender’s budget that he said could lead to “massive shifts” in funding to reflect changing priorities under his goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

 
Qoochan-nejad, Iran’s New Savior
A true star is made for hard times. Looking back at Iran’s four qualifying successes for the FIFA World Cup, it seems that each time Team Melli’s hopes are hanging by a thread there is a hero who duly rises to the occasion to rescue their campaign.

 
Nation Primed For Leap Forward
Today, the country is primed for a leap forward because of its potential capacities, if the grounds are prepared, said the head of Tehran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.

 
US-led Embargoes Wrong, Failed
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi says imposition of sanctions on the Islamic Republic follows a wrong and failed policy.

 
EU Must Seize Opportunity for Better Ties
The Iranian ambassador to the European Union said the bloc should ease sanctions against Tehran in order to grasp a new ‘opportunity’ for better ties which opened up following Iran’s recent presidential election.

 
Iran Monitoring All Stealth Flights in Region
A senior commander of the Iranian Air Defense Force said on Tuesday that the country’s air defense units are monitoring and tracking all stealth aircraft flying in the region and have even warned and chased away many reconnaissance planes seeking to approach the country’s borders.

 
Official Hopes US Will Drop Hostile Policies
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani in a meeting with Swiss Ambassador to Tehran Livia Leu Agosti expressed the hope that the US will give up its hostile policies against Iran.

 
8 Slovaks Held for Photographing Restricted Areas
Iran’s Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said eight Slovak citizens and one Iranian have been arrested in the central Iranian province of Isfahan on charges of photographing restricted areas.

 
Envoy, Lebanese Politician Discuss Regional Developments
Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi and Secretary General of Lebanon’s Arab-Islamic Assembly for Supporting Resistance Yahya Ghaddar in a meeting on Monday discussed regional developments.