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Iran English language newspaper headlines on Sunday, 20-10-2013

20 Oct 2013 - 13:24


Iran Daily
 
Iran seeks win-win nuclear solution 
President Hassan Rouhani expressed the political will to pursue a win-win game following the latest round of talks between Iran and six major world powers on Tehran’s civilian nuclear work.

 
FM to brief MPs on Geneva talks 
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been invited to the Majlis to present a report on the recent negotiations between the Islamic Republic and six major world powers on Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

 
Turkey rejects EU view on handling protests
Turkey on Saturday rejected European Union criticism of its handling of anti-government protests earlier this year, but said a report on its progress towards joining the bloc showed it had come closer to European economic and democratic standards.

 
Berlusconi gets two-year ban from politics
A court in Milan on Saturday ordered a two-year ban from parliament and elections for scandal-tainted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the latest twist in his legal saga.

 
Ferguson: No regrets about retirement
Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson says that he does not regret his decision to retire and is happy to provide assistance to his successor, David Moyes.

 
World economy at risk
The rebalancing of global demand following the financial crisis may mask fault lines that still threaten the world economy, according to HSBC Holdings Plc and Deutsche Bank AG.

 
Heroine, a threat to europeans translated by Shahrokh Saei
A senior Iranian official has warned that heroine consumption is spilling over to European markets. 

 
Military capable of producing laser cannons
A senior military commander said the country is capable of producing laser cannons, both in offensive and defensive spheres.

 
US, Russia discuss Iran and Syria
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and US Ambassador Michael McFaul met on Saturday to discuss a number of international and bilateral subjects.

 
Secrecy policy helpful for nuclear talks
An Iranian political analyst said on Saturday that the confidentiality of the Geneva talks between Iran and the P5 +1 members would effectively help progress of negotiations between the two sides.

 
Russia’s high-ranking military delegation due
A high-ranking Russian military delegation is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Sunday to discuss defense ties with Iran’s top military commanders.

 
Under sanctions, CBI replaces SWIFT with indigenous version
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has developed a home-made financial telecommunications system, known as SEPAM, as a replacement for SWIFT.

 
Scholar: Geneva talks positive
An Iranian scholar in Switzerland described as very much positive the talks between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva which ended on October 16.

 
Tehran Times
 
Iran has the political will to reach a win-win deal: Rouhani
Iran has the necessary political will to strike a winwin deal with the six major powers to resolve the decade-old dispute over its nuclear program, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday.

 
Hamas says its members not fighting in Egypt, Syria
The Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh denied reports that the Islamic group was involved in fighting in the neighboring Egyptian Sinai or in Syria, media reported on Saturday.

 
Dust from  Iraq puts 4 Iraniancities among world’s 10 most polluted
A day after the World Health Organization published a report linking air pollution to lung cancer, the business news website Quartz has put together a list of the most polluted cities in the world, of which four are in Iran.

 
Freed Lebanese return home amid joy
Nine Lebanese religious tourists held hostage for over a year by Syrian rebels headed home Saturday from Turkey and a security source said two Turkish pilots abducted earlier this year in Beirut have been handed over to authorities and would soon be flown back to their country.

 
Al-Nusra terrorists threaten to target Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon
An official in the al-Nusra Front has threatened to target Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in response to the party's alleged involvement in the fighting in Syria, reported the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah daily on Saturday.

 
EPO plans to launch environmentally friendly movement in Iran
The director of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization says the organization under  her portfolio plans to establish an environmentally friendly city and village council movement across the country.

 
Maintaining U.S. presence in Afghanistan would bolster Taliban: expert
On October 12 Washington and Kabul agreed on a draft deal that would keep some U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014, but only if political and tribal leaders in Afghanistan agree
to a U.S. demand that U.S. troops not be subject to Afghan law.

 
Majlis would study additional protocol once sanctions lifted: MP
An Iranian lawmaker has said the Majlis would study the implementation of the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) only after the West lifts all sanctions against Iran.

 
Land mine left over from Iran-Iraq war explodes, injures 7 children
An explosion from a land mine left over from the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war has injured seven children in western Iran, the Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.

 
Secrecy on nuclear proposal is sign of seriousness: Zarif
The Iranian negotiating team’s refusal to unveil details of the nuclear proposal it presented during the Geneva talks is a sign of its sincerity and seriousness, Iranian Foreign Minister  and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with Al-Monitor published on Friday.

 
Republicans call for new sanctions on Iran
Leading Republican senators have called for new sanctions to be imposed on Iran, creating a potential conflict between Congress and the Obama administration as it pursues a diplomatic solution to the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear program, Financial Times reported on Thursday.

 
Iran renews call for nuclear-weapons-free zone in Mideast
Iranian Ambassador to the UN Mohammad Khazaei has renewed Tehran’s call for turning the Middle East into a nuclear weapons-free zone, saying the proposition enjoys the backing of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) members, Press TV reports.

 


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