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Iran English language newspaper headlines on Wednesday, 23-10-2013

23 Oct 2013 - 10:04


Iran Daily
 

 
Nuclear talks in full coordination with Leader
Foreign Ministry said the nuclear talks between Tehran and six world powers are conducted in full coordination with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

 
UN Envoy: Iran tops human development index
A senior United Nations official said Iran tops Human Development Index (HDI), which was published in the 2013 report of UN’s Human Development Report. 

 
Iran ready to help hold Syria reconstruction confab
Minister of Road and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi voiced Iran’s readiness to help hold an international conference on reconstruction of Syria.

 
IAEA: Malware infected some computers
Malicious software infected some UN nuclear agency computers over the past few months but no data in its network has been compromised, the agency said on Tuesday.

 
Rights Groups: US drone strikes a war crime
Two international human rights groups have raised grave concerns about US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, suggesting some attacks in recent years may amount to war crimes.

 
Riyadh to ‘shift away from US’ over Syria, Iran
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief has said the kingdom will make a ‘major shift’ in dealings with the United States in protest at its perceived inaction over the Syria war and its overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.

 
BIITS replacing BRICs
Investors in these markets are becoming more discerning about where they put their money, shying away from countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and South Africa.

 
Iran to launch UO2 production line
Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Tuesday called on the United Nations to undertake reforms to reflect the ‘growing role of developing countries’.

 
Syria crisis can’t be solved without Tehran
Senior member of the European Parliament (EP) Hannes Swoboda said the Syria conflict cannot be settled without Iran’s engagement, stressing that the ongoing crisis in the Arab nation must be resolved through political means and not a military intervention.

 
Russia, India emphasize Iran N-right
Russia and India have emphasized Iran’s right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, calling for a comprehensive and permanent settlement to the issue of Iranian nuclear energy program.

 

New UN official website opens

The new United Nation official website in Iran was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Deputy Foreign Minister for legal and international affairs Abbas Araqchi and UN Development Program (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark in Tehran on Tuesday.

 

 
Tehran Times
 

 
Iran, 5+1 may agree on uranium enrichment to purity of 5%: Russia
Iran and the six major powers may strike an accord in which Tehran would continue enriching uranium up to five percent purity, according to Russia’s chief negotiator at the recent nuclear talks.

 
Riyadh to shift away from U.S.: Saudi spy chief
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief has said the kingdom will make a “major shift” in relations with the United States in protest at its perceived inaction over the Syria war and its overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.

 
U.S. officials should face war crimes charges for drone killings: Amnesty Intl.
A joint report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch says U.S. officials could be found guilty of war crimes for the secret CIA drone attacks which have killed hundreds of  civilians in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch has issued similar report on Yemen.

 
UN hails Iran’s rapid progress in human development
Iran has been  ranked among the “high human development countries” in the Human  Development Index in 2013, which measures progress on dimensions of health, education,
and income, UN Development Program Administrator Helen Clark announced on Tuesday.

 
Libya war invalids occupy parliament: MP
A number of disabled former rebels from the war that toppled Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, broke into the parliament building and vandalized some of it Tuesday, an MP told AFP.

 
Saudis fully implement U.S. policies: Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad charged Saudi Arabia, a main backer of the Syrian opposition, was carrying out U.S. policy against his government.

 
‘Bahraini lives cheaper than car tires’
A prominent Bahraini activist deplored a court’s decision on Monday to reduce to three years the prison sentence of a police officer convicted of killing the first martyr of Bahrain’s
2011 anti-government uprising.

 
Oman to take care of Iran’s interests in Canada
Oman will look after Iranian affairs in Canada and the Italian Embassy in Tehran will host Canada’s interests section in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman announced on Tuesday.

 
Rafsanjani calls on West to show goodwill
Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called on the West to prove its goodwill in cooperating with Iran to resolve the dispute over the country’s nuclear program.

 
Iran, world powers to hold expert-level talks next week
Iran and the six major powers will hold expert-level talks next week prior to the higher-level negotiations scheduled for early November, an Iranian deputy foreign minister announced on Tuesday.

 
Iran to launch UO2 production line in three months: nuclear chief
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced on Tuesday that the production line of enriched UO2 (uranium dioxide) will be launched within three months.

 
Diplomacy with Iran should be given a freer reign: U.S. congressman
It would be better not to increase sanctions on Iran to give diplomacy a freer reign in order to resolve the long-running dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program, according
to U.S. Congressman David Price.


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