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Reuters:
"Iran on Tuesday dismissed a U.N. investigator's allegations of
severe human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic, saying the criticisms
were aimed at inciting 'Iranophobia and Islamophobia.' The latest report,
by U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, says
executions in Iran have sharply increased since President Hassan
Rouhani's election last year. He said torture is used in prisons, the
situation of women has deteriorated and religious minorities are still
persecuted. Iranian envoy Forouzandeh Vadiati told the U.N. General
Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights, that its
discussion of her country was a fruitless annual ritual". http://t.uani.com/1Dt078j
WSJ:
"The Obama administration and Iran, engaged in direct nuclear
negotiations and facing a common threat from Islamic State militants,
have moved into an effective state of détente over the past year,
according to senior U.S. and Arab officials. The shift could drastically
alter the balance of power in the region, and risks alienating key U.S.
allies such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates who are central to
the coalition fighting Islamic State. Sunni Arab leaders view the threat
posed by Shiite Iran as equal to or greater than that posed by the Sunni
radical group Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. Israel contends
the U.S. has weakened the terms of its negotiations with Iran and played
down Tehran's destabilizing role in the region". http://t.uani.com/1tfE0PY
Nuclear
Program & Negotiations
AFP:
"Iran's government was forced to deny Tuesday it had already struck
a nuclear deal with the West, after a lawmaker accused its negotiators of
secretly selling the country short. In a sign of the domestic tension
surrounding talks being held abroad with world powers, Iran's foreign
ministry threatened to prosecute the member of parliament who said an
agreement that breaches the Islamic republic's 'red lines' had been
settled. A group of hardline MPs in Tehran have repeatedly warned Iran
has already given up too much in talks with the United States and other
leading nations under an interim deal that traded curbs on its nuclear
programme for limited sanctions relief." http://t.uani.com/136tFgX
NYT:
"With the deadline of Nov. 24 fast approaching, it is far from clear
whether the two camps will agree on a pact that would meet the West's
demands to extend the time it would take Iran to make a bomb, and fulfill
Iran's demand that it have the nuclear rights other nations enjoy. But
American and European officials say they think they have some new
leverage: falling oil prices that are adding to Iran's pain at a time its
oil revenue has dropped more than half because of sanctions." http://t.uani.com/1zeTs3A
Sanctions Relief
Trend:
"National Iranian Oil Company's Director of International Affairs
Seyyed Mohesen Qamsari said that Iran has started exporting liquid gas
(LPG) to European countries.'Iran has started exporting single cargos to
certain countries,' he said, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported Oct.
29."Iran is currently exporting all its surplus liquid gas,"
Qamsari said, adding that the country is facing no problem in this
regard. He went on to note that Iran averagely exports 100,000 metric
tons of liquid gas per day to different countries. 'South Korea is the
main importer of Iran's liquid gas,' the official said, noting that East
and Southeast Asian countries are the biggest importers of Iran's liquid
gas". http://t.uani.com/1wCJe9Y
Human Rights
The Daily Beast:
"Long before Reyhanneh Jabbari was executed in Iran this weekend,
she was tortured and beaten for months - and then sent to one of Iran's
most notorious prisons, one of her lawyers claimed. Her crime? Killing
the man who tried to rape her when she was just 19. 'They kept her in a
solitary cell where she was chained,' Jabbari's first lawyer, Mohammad
Mostafaei said in an interview with The Daily Beast. 'They would
blindfold her sometimes for days and they beat her face and her head.'
Jabbari's execution on Saturday was widely condemned by human groups such
as Amnesty International on the grounds that it illustrates how Iran's
own legal system is prejudiced against women. (She was initially charged
with the crime in 2007.) http://t.uani.com/1wEWav1
Domestic
Politics
Bloomberg:
"Iran's parliament overwhelmingly rejected Hassan Rouhani's nominee
to head the science ministry, in a boost to the president's hardline
opponents. The president had nominated Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, the
chancellor of Tehran University, to run the ministry that oversees Iran's
universities, following the impeachment of the previous science minister,
Reza Faraji-Dana, on Aug. 20. Faraji-Dana irked hardliners for allowing
the return of students and professors expelled from colleges -- some for political
activities -- during the rule of Rouhani's predecessor, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. Ali Larijani, the speaker and leader of Iran's Majles, or
parliament, said 160 lawmakers voted against the appointment and 79 in
favor, in a live broadcast on Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News
Network. Rouhani appeared before legislators ahead of the vote to defend
his choice, telling lawmakers that 'the people appreciate neither
distance, nor, God forbid, stubbornness.'" http://t.uani.com/1wFBcOs
Foreign Affairs
Washington Post:
"Last month, visitors to Bandar Abbas on Iran's southern coast
gathered to witness a never-seen-before event: two Chinese warships
pulling into port .It could be just the start of a budding naval alliance
stretching from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf. Iranian and Chinese
commanders last week announced plans for greater maritime cooperation.
While the details are vague, it clearly touches ambitions on both sides:
Expanding the reach of their warships into faraway seas and new ports of
call. And, at the same time, giving a jab at the United States and its
preeminent naval power". http://t.uani.com/1yH1H5p
Reuters:
"Iran accused Turkey on Tuesday of prolonging the three-year
conflict in neighboring Syria by insisting on President Bashar al-Assad's
overthrow and supporting "terrorist groups" in Syria, the
official IRNA news agency reported. Tehran and Ankara back opposing sides
in the civil war, which pits rebel forces including radical Sunni Muslim
fighters from the Islamic State against Assad, Tehran's closest regional
ally. Turkey, which has called for Assad to step down, has been a main
transit point for foreign militants crossing into Syria to fight his
forces, while Iran has supported him both militarily and
politically". http://t.uani.com/13aRILN
Opinion &
Analysis
Sen. Charles S.
Robb (D-Va.), U.S.A.F. Gen. Charles Wald (ret.) and Blaise Misztal in The
Hill: "A diplomatic agreement still remains the most
desirable method for ensuring that Iran's totalitarian regime does not
acquire a nuclear weapons capability. But pursuing a deal that does not
fully prevent such an outcome, only delays it, could be dangerous for our
national security. And doing so without the involvement, and against the
considered judgment, of Congress would certainly be dangerous to our
nation's already fragile civic health. According to The New York Times,
U.S. negotiators are considering how to structure a potential deal with
Iran such that lawmakers need not approve it. The motivation for this
approach stems from the fact that, since the United States and its
international partners inked an interim deal with Iran almost a year ago,
Capitol Hill and the White House have been at odds over both the means
and ends of the negotiations". http://t.uani.com/1tLUxxV
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