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Reuters:
"Iran's biggest clients took in a quarter more oil in the first six
months of 2014 than in the same period of last year, with China and India
holding to the higher volumes they started after the agreement that
relaxed Western sanctions on Tehran. Iran's exports to its top four oil
buyers - China, India, Japan and South Korea - may keep rising even
though a deadline for a final deal on its disputed nuclear programme had
to be extended. The lead U.S. nuclear negotiator on Tuesday said
participants aim to reach a resolution on the decade-old dispute by the
end of the four-month extension. Iran last week received the final
instalment of the $4.2 billion (£2.4 billion) in oil payments released as
part of the earlier agreement, although another $2.8 billion was released
as part of the extension. 'From this point forward, we expect more upside
than down with respect to Iranian crude exports to Asia with the caveat
that talks don't collapse completely,' said James Davis, a consultant at
Facts Global Energy. 'We see an extra 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of
crude production from Iran by end-2015 as very possible,' he said.
The four Asian buyers imported 1.2 million bpd in the first half of 2014,
versus 961,236 bpd in the same period a year ago, according to official customs
data and tanker arrival schedules. China, Iran's biggest customer, raised
its imports by almost 50 percent in the first half, while India increased
its purchases by a third." http://t.uani.com/1rLstFX
AFP:
"The chief of Iran's elite Quds Force has ridiculed calls for Hamas
to be disarmed and urged the Palestinian Islamist movement in Gaza to
'turn the land and skies into hell' for Israel. Major General Qassem
Suleimani's message to militant factions resisting Israel's military
operations in the Gaza Strip was published late Wednesday by Iran's
official IRNA news agency. Suleimani 'underlined that confronting the
Zionist enemy is a necessity and the Palestinian resistance movement will
turn the land and skies into hell for the Zionists.' 'Disarmament of
resistance is a daydream that will only come true in the graveyard' for
Israel, said the rarely-quoted senior figure... 'Martyrdom for Palestine
is a dream of every noble Muslim and freedom-seeker.'" http://t.uani.com/1nWl60e
Free Beacon:
"Iranian President Hassan Rouhani lashed out at Israel in vitriolic
terms on Wednesday, referring to Israel as a 'festering Zionist tumor.'
Rouhani, who has been championed by Western media as a moderate reformer
who could change Iran's extremist ways, appears to be adopting a violent
tone similar to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has advocated for the
complete destruction of Israel in recent days. 'Today, this festering
Zionist tumor has opened once again and has turned the land of olives
into destruction and blood and littered the land with the body parts of
Palestinian children,' Rouhani was quoted as saying in a statement that
was translated by the Brookings Institution. Rouhani's comments have
received little attention in the Western media, which rushed to congratulate
the Iranian leader last year for sending a greeting to Jews during the
Rosh Hashanah holiday. Rouhani went on to compare Israel to the jihadists
affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS),
which Iran is fighting against in Iraq. ISIL is 'a second festering tumor
that murders people in the name of Islam,' Rouhani said, adding that,
'analysts say that both of these tumors derived from the same
origin.'" http://t.uani.com/1rLwVEV
Sanctions
Relief
Tasnim (Iran):
"Austrian President Heinz Fischer will pay an official visit to Iran
after the end of the extended nuclear talks between Tehran and six world
powers, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Thursday. 'Vienna and
Tehran are consulting on the timing of Fischer's trip. But it is expected
to take place after the conclusion of nuclear talks on November 24th,'
said Austrian Presidential Spokeswoman Astrid Salmhofer. A high-ranking
economic delegation will accompany Fischer during his visit to explore
investment opportunities in Iran." http://t.uani.com/1nMUAWl
Iraq Crisis
Reuters:
"A Hezbollah commander has died during a mission in Iraq, sources
familiar with the incident said on Wednesday, indicating the Lebanese
group that is already fighting in Syria's civil war may be involved in a
second conflict in the region. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shi'ite
Islamist group, has not previously announced any role in the conflict in
Iraq, which escalated last month when radical Sunni militants seized
large areas of territory from the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad. Four
sources in Lebanon named the Hezbollah commander as Ibrahim al-Haj, a
technical specialist involved in training. They said he was 'martyred' in
a battle near Mosul, a city in northern Iraq seized from government
control last month by an al Qaeda offshoot known as the Islamic State.
His funeral was held on Wednesday in the village of Qilya in the Bekaa
Valley. A Hezbollah official contacted by Reuters declined to
comment." http://t.uani.com/1nMSju2
Human Rights
Guardian:
"Iran's crackdown on journalists and political activists is being
spearheaded by a small group of judges under the influence of the
country's intelligence and security apparatus, according to human rights
organisations. Four judges with Iran's revolutionary court and two appeal
judges have led numerous court sessions that activists say did not
conform to fair trial principles according to Iran's constitution, and
are in breach of international treaties to which Tehran is a signatory.
The six judges are accused of losing their judicial impartiality and
overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which scores of
journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic
and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms,
lashes and even execution. Those accused are judges Abolghassem Salavati
and Mohammad Moghiseh, former justices Yahya Pirabbasi and Hassan Zareh
Dehnavi (known as judge Haddad), and appeal judges Hassan Babaee and
Ahmad Zargar. According to several former prisoners who spoke to the
Guardian, and testimonies received by human rights groups, common
violations by the judges include holding trials behind closed doors,
lasting only a few minutes and without essential legal procedures,
intimidating defendants, breaching judicial independence by acting as
prosecutors themselves and depriving prisoners of access to
lawyers." http://t.uani.com/XjA3yz
Reuters:
"An Iranian-American man detained along with three journalists in
Iran last week has been released, a source close to one of those being
held said on Wednesday. The United States has called for their release
and a senior U.S. official said Washington was using 'all appropriate
channels' to make its concerns known to Iran. 'They were treated with
respect, given food and water,' said the source, adding that the man, who
is the husband of one of the three detained journalists, was not
tortured. Their names are being withheld at the request of the couple's
relatives. Still in detention along with the freed man's wife, who is an
Iranian-American photographer, are Jason Rezaian, 38, an Iranian-American
and Tehran correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh
Salehi, a correspondent for the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper The
National. The four were arrested in Tehran last Tuesday." http://t.uani.com/1pt9pN0
Al-Monitor:
"Iran's Labor Ministry has sent a letter to Tehran Mayor Mohammad
Bagher Ghalibaf expressing its misgivings about the proposed segregating
of the sexes at municipal offices. Deputy Labor Minister Mohammad Taghi
Hosseini wrote to the mayor and Tehran's city council July 4, 'As you
know, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of the International
Labour Organization, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as the
national reference for membership in this organization, is required to observe
obligations and commitments ... to international labor conventions, such
as non-discrimination in the work place.' The letter stated that such a
practice could provoke an 'international reaction,' even going so far as
to say that 'it could be considered a human rights violation' by some
international organizations." http://t.uani.com/1zz4y10
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