Iran, Azerbaijan to Ink 10 Cooperation Pacts
‘U.S. Senate Elections Won’t Affect Talks’
TEHRAN (Fars) -- Tehran and Baku will bolster mutual cooperation in different areas during an upcoming visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Azerbaijan by signing nearly
a dozen cooperation pacts, Iran’s Minister of Communications and IT Mahmoud Vaezi said Saturday. He said a two-day
visit by President Rouhani to Azerbaijan will start on November 12. “These documents are mainly aimed at developing
cooperation between the two countries in power imports from
Azerbaijan, facile customs procedures, transportation, power
industry, tourism, trade, insurance and economy.”
TEHRAN (Fars) -- Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said
Saturday a recent Republican victory in U.S. Senate elections will not affect negotiations between Iran and the six
world powers. “I do not see changes in the U.S. Senate
having much impact on the trend of nuclear negotiations
because Democrats and Republicans share similar views
in areas related to national security and interests,” Larijani said. He said the outcome of the elections might influence the role played by the U.S. Senate, but what matters
is the role that the U.S. government will be playing.
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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- A failure by Iran and world powers to
reach a comprehensive agreement
over Tehran’s nuclear program
would be dangerous “for the entire
world”, a senior Iranian negotiator
said on Saturday.
Iran and six world powers are
seeking a landmark deal by November 24 that would see Iran
scale back its nuclear activities in
return for a lifting of U.S.-led sanctions.
“A nuclear deal is in the interest
of both parties and the region,”
Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas
Araqchi said in an interview with
Iranian television the day before
talks between Tehran and the socalled P5+1 group of nations resume in Oman ahead of a final
deadline this month.
“No one wants to return to the situation there was before the Geneva
accord, as that would be a dangerous scenario for the entire world,”
he said, referring to an interim
agreement Iran signed last year
that traded curbs on its nuclear program for limited sanctions relief.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Sunday and Monday
with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad
Zarif in Oman along with EU former head of diplomacy Catherine
Ashton in an attempt to bring the
two sides closer together.
“Negotiations
have
almost
stopped on one or two issues and
we hope that talks in Oman will allow us to make progress” on a final
deal, Araqchi said.
He added that “the level, capacity
and the size of enrichment and the
time needed to be able to have industrial enrichment are subjects of
negotiations”.
According to AFP, citing an unnamed diplomatic source in Tehran, new proposals from the P5+1
group (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany) could allow Iran to “quickly”
seal a deal that would see sanctions
lifted in exchange for reassurances
that Tehran was not seeking a nuclear bomb.
“The Islamic Republic would
never look to make an atomic
weapon,” Araqchi said. “But we
understand that the other side will
need assurances.”
Araqchi said Iran sees no alternative to a diplomatic settlement with
six world powers on its nuclear
program and believes both sides
are resolved to reach a deal by a
self-imposed Nov. 24 deadline.
“No middle solutions exist and
all our thoughts are focused on
how to reach a settlement,” he told
the state news agency IRNA.
“Both sides are aware of this,
which is why I think a deal is within reach. We are serious and I can
see the same resolve on the other
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side,” he said.
The stickiest unresolved issues
are Iran’s overall uranium enrichment capacity, the length of
any long-term agreement and the
pace at which sanctions would be
phased out, according to Western
diplomats involved in the negotiations.
Kerry said on Wednesday the
negotiations would get more difficult if the Nov. 24 deadline were
missed, and the powers were not for now - weighing any extension
to the talks.
Iran says it is enriching uranium
solely for a future network of civilian nuclear power stations and
to yield isotopes for medical treatments.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said Saturday Moscow and
Washington will do their utmost to
help the conclusion of a deal over
Iran’s nuclear energy program by
the November 24 deadline.
“We have a mutual disposition,
with the Americans as well, to do
everything possible in order to
meet this deadline,” Lavrov said
after a meeting with U.S. Kerry
on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC)
summit in Beijing.
Lavrov said Iran and the P5+1
group are holding talks “to elaborate a system of guarantees of
the exclusively peaceful nature
of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a full gradual removal
of sanctions against the country”.
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EU Calls for
Independent
Palestinian State
Iraqi Troops
Retake Full
Control of Baiji
Zionists Facing Third Intifada
A masked Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling shot to throw rocks at Zionist forces during clashes at the
main entrance of the West bank city of Bethlehem.
AL-QUDS (Dispatches) — Hun- top plateau known to Muslims as broader in preceding weeks.
dreds of Palestinians knelt on prayer the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as
Muslims, who make up about a
carpets in a Jerusalem Al-Quds the Temple Mount.
third of the population of the city,
street, faced by a cordon of Israeli
The occupying regime of Israel say the security clampdown only
police who blocked them from reach- argues that restricting access to the heightens fears that their traditional
ing Islam’s third- holiest shrine in the shrine, which has been common in control of the holy site, home to
nearby Old City.
recent weeks, is needed to clamp the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the goldThe worshippers eventually dis- down on growing unrest in the con- topped Dome of the Rock, is under
persed peacefully, but the scene tested city of 810,000 people. On threat from Zionist zealots.
highlighted the escalating tensions Friday, Muslims under age 35 were
In recent weeks, senior members
over the holy site — a walled, hill- denied entry, while restrictions were of Israeli PM Benjamin Netan-
ISIL Shuts All Schools in Eastern Syria
BEIRUT (Dispatches) – ISIL militants have shut all schools in areas
they control in eastern Syria pending
a religious revision of the curriculum,
residents and a monitoring group
said.
ISIL is tightening its rules on civilian life in Deir al-Zor province,
which fell under near-complete
control of the militant group this
summer. The government still controls a military air base and other
small pockets.
The announcement came after
ISIL held a meeting with school
administrators at a local mosque
on the outskirts of Deir al-Zor city,
according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
which monitors all sides of the conflict.
“ISIL informed them that teachers
shall undergo a religious instructional course for one month, and that
ISIL officials were currently developing a new curriculum instead of
the current ‘infidel’ education,” the
Observatory statement said.
At the start of the academic year in
September, ISIL revised the school
curriculum in areas it controls,
eliminating physics and chemistry
while promoting own teachings.
Their latest move aims to further
reduce the school day into several
hours of religious learning at the expense of academic subjects, according to local activists.
“They’ve announced that they
will only teach religion and a little
bit of mathematics. Their rationale
is that all knowledge belongs to the
creator, so even the multiplication
table shouldn’t be taught,” said an
activist called Abu Hussein al Deiri.
Some locals protested the school
shutdown, according to footage
posted online by activists. It showed
two dozen girls and boys appearing
to be under 12 years of age marching
with a few female teachers clad in
black veils as required by ISIL since
the beginning of the academic year.
The children chanted: “We want
school.”
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a sniper in the ruins of Donetsk’s international airport, where Ukrainian
forces are almost surrounded by
rebels, the military said in a statement.
Another 15 servicemen were
wounded as government positions
around the conflict zone came under repeated bombardment, the
statement said.
The allegations that Moscow is
stepping up reinforcements for the
insurgents stoked fears that both
sides could slide into a return to allout fighting.
A column of 32 tanks, 16 howitzer cannons and 30 trucks carrying
troops and equipment crossed the
border into the separatist-held Luhansk region Thursday, Ukrainian
military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said, adding that another convoy including three mobile radar
stations had also entered the same
area.
U.S. State Department spokes-
woman Jen Psaki said Russian
battle tanks, armored vehicles and
cargo trucks had been seen Thursday about 25 kilometers (15 miles)
from the border, but added there
was no “independent confirmation”
of the reports.
“If confirmed, the United States
condemns this most recent incursion into Ukrainian territory,” she
said. “It would be another blatant
violation of the Minsk agreement
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Ukraine Claims Tanks Roll In From Russia
KIEV (AFP) -- Dozens of tanks and
truckloads of soldiers have crossed
from Russia into Kremlin-backed
rebel territory, Ukraine said, though
neither NATO nor the U.S. were able
to verify the claim.
Meanwhile the Ukraine military
said Saturday one Ukrainian soldier
has been killed and 15 wounded in
fighting with pro-Russian rebels
over the past 24 hours, as clashes
continued to break a nominal truce.
One paratrooper was shot dead by
yahu’s coalition have called for a
greater Zionist presence, stirring
Muslim worries about encroachment. Under an arrangement in
place since the occupying regime
of Israel’s capture of the Old City
and its shrines in 1967, the sacred
plateau is administered by Muslims
reporting to Jordan.
Any perceived attempt to change
the existing prayer arrangements at
the shrine is seen by local Muslims
as highly provocative.
They say they view it as another
threat to their status and identity.
Many Palestinian residents of the
city complain of high taxes for poor
municipal services, compared with
those offered in Zionist neighborhoods, as well as severe restrictions
on building permits.
Muhammad Fakhouri, a 38-yearold shopkeeper in the Old City,
said the restrictions on prayer at the
Al-Aqsa Mosque are the last straw,
adding that he hasn’t been able to
attend for the past five weeks because of the age limits.
“Like the Jewish people, we pay
taxes, and we don’t get anything
from Israel,” he said. “They don’t
let us build houses. ... If you can’t
go pray, what’s after this?”
Muslims from the West Bank face
even greater difficulties in reaching
the shrine because they must have
Israeli permits to enter Jerusalem
Al-Quds. Those with permits pass
through barbed-wire topped terminals in Israel’s separation barrier,
often enduring long waits en route
to the mosque.
Earlier this week, Netanyahu reassured Jordan’s King Abdullah II
that the occupying regime of Israel
would not change the status quo at
the holy site and that Zionist politicians expressing a different view
were not speaking for the regime.
Jordan had recalled its ambassador
in protest after a police raid over a
clash at the entrance to the mosque.
On Friday, Netanyahu made no
mention of those politicians, instead
blaming “militant Islamic incitement” for the increasing violence in
Jerusalem Al-Quds.
This has included near-daily
clashes between Palestinian stonethrowers and Israeli police in Arab
neighborhoods of the city and two
deadly attacks in which Palestinians
drove vehicles into crowds waiting at light-rail stops in Jerusalem
Al-Quds. In another incident, a Palestinian on a motorcycle shot and
seriously wounded a Zionist zealot.
The most recent attack, on Wednesday, was carried out by an activist
from the Islamic resistance group
Hamas who drove his minivan into
a train stop, killing one man and
wounding 13. One of the wounded,
17-year-old Shalom Ahron Badani,
died Friday of his injuries.
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