Iran Daily

 
Sanctions ‘challenge for world economy’ 
Unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil industry have posed serious challenges to the tenuous global economic recovery and led to scarcity, access difficulty and lack of transparency in energy markets, Iranian economy minister said.

 
Nuclear talks should aim at trust building 
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the upcoming negotiations between Tehran and six major world powers on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program should aim to build trust in order to yield results.

 
Iran protests to UNESCO against Azerbaijan 
Vice president and head of the Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (ICHTHO), Mohammad Ali Najafi objected to the replacement of Persian inscriptions on the tomb of the great Iranian poet Hakim Nizami by the Azeri government.

 
Dozens dead in new migrant tragedy
About 200 shocked survivors were plucked from the sea on Saturday after their overloaded boat sank, claiming more than 30 lives in the latest deadly migrant tragedy to hit the Mediterranean.

 
Obama urged continued engagement with Iran 
A group of 35 leading security experts, scholars and former government officials have sent a letter to President Obama applauding the recent diplomatic overtures between Iran and the United States and pledging support as negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program commence.

 
Libya PM says abduction attempted coup 
Libya’s Western-backed prime minister on Friday said his brief abduction by gunmen this week was an attempted coup by his Islamist political rivals, using militias which he warned are trying to “terrorize” the government and turn the North African nation into another Afghanistan or Somalia.

 
EU crisis causing poverty 
Europe is facing a catastrophic economic and social decline, according to a new Red Cross report.

 
Brazil cruise to win over S. Korea 
Neymar and Oscar scored in each half as Brazil cruised to a 2-0 win over South Korea in a friendly the 2014 World Cup hosts dominated in Seoul on Saturday.

 
Obama forewarns Netanyahu that sanctions will soon be lifted 
President Barack Obama has notified Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that his administration will soon start the partial and gradual easing of economic sanctions against Iran, DEBKAfile reported on Friday exclusively from its Washington and Jerusalem sources.

 
VP: Bans causing environmental damages
Head of Iran’s Department of the Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar said the US-led sanctions against Iran have inflicted irreparable damage on the country’s environment.

 
West should do more in anti-drug campaign
Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gholam Hossein Dehqani urged the West and international bodies to feel more responsibility in campaign against worldwide drug trafficking.

 
Administration determined to support elites
An adviser to the Iranian vice-president for science and technology affairs said the administration is determined to fully support scientific elites.

 
Hamun lake in critical state
An Iranian lawmaker voiced concern about the critical state of Hamun Lake in the southeast of the country, and called on neighboring Afghanistan to stand by its commitments to ensure necessary water flow to revive the drying lake.

 
Navy will repel any aggression
Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says Iran is the most secure country in the region, stressing Iranian naval forces will respond to any act of aggression on its territorial waters.

 
Parliamentary team off to Algeria
A four-member Iranian parliamentary delegation left for an official visit to Algeria to discuss regional and international issues with high-ranking Algerian officials.

 
Tehran Times
 
Sanctions on Iran challenge fragile global economy
The economy minister has said that the unilateral sanctions on the Iranian oil and gas industries “have seriously challenged the fragile global economy.”

 
Islamabad asks Iran to build Pakistani side of gas pipeline
Pakistan asked Iran to construct the Pakistani side of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline as well, said an o?cial statement.

 
Iran’s participation in Geneva confab ‘essential’: Lavrov
The West has started treating the possible participation of Iran in the Geneva II international conference on Syria more realistically, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

 
Arafat poisoned to death: medical journal
A report by one of the world’s leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death
nearly a decade ago.

 
McCain supported al-Qaeda in Syria: U.S. lawmaker
A U.S. Republican lawmaker has publicly declared that hawkish Republic Senator John McCain of Arizona has in fact “supported al-Qaeda” in Syria.

 
No deal to resolve fiscal crisis in U.S. Congress
Hopes for a resolution of Washington's fiscal crisis in the next day or two faded on Capitol Hill on Saturday, as President Barack Obama's efforts to reach a deal with Republicans in
the House of Representatives sputtered.

 
Negotiation on Iran’s red lines meaningless: MP
An Iranian MP has said that holding negotiations on Iran’s red lines in the process of talks between Tehran and world powers over the country’s nuclear program is “meaningless”.

 
Iran dismisses espionage charges against citizen in Baku
The Iranian Embassy in Baku has dismissed as baseless the espionage charges against an Iranian citizen in Azerbaijan.

 
Tehran official visits China ahead of Iran’s talks with 5+1 group
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi is visiting China ahead of a new round of talks with major powers over Iran’s nuclear program.

 
Three spies stand trial in Iran: judge
Iran has brought three suspected spies to trial in the south-eastern province of Kerman on charges of conspiring against the Islamic Republic and having relations with the Zionist
regime of Israel.

 
Japanese foreign minister to visit Iran in early Nov.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida plans to visit Iran in early November to urge the Middle Eastern country to settle the dispute over its nuclear program and discuss the Syrian crisis, a Japanese government source said Friday, Kyodo News reported.

 
Nuclear talks should aim at building trust: Iranian parliament speaker
Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the forthcoming negotiations between Tehran and six major world powers on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program should aim to
build trust in order to yield results.

 
Iranian parliamentary delegation to visit Algeria
A four-member Iranian parliamentary delegation is set to pay an official visit to Algeria in order to discuss regional and international issues with high-ranking Algerian officials