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LAT:
"With talks nearly deadlocked and their deadline one month away, six
world powers seeking a nuclear deal with Iran have begun discussing
whether to again extend negotiations, according to Western officials.
Officials say they believe a deal is still possible by the Nov. 24
deadline, but recognize that the odds are long and want to avoid a
collapse of talks that could heighten tension. 'Our priority is still to
work hard and try to reach an agreement,' said one Western official, who
declined to be identified because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the
subject. 'But clearly, it would be extremely, extremely challenging.' The
six countries have been trying since January to negotiate a deal that
would lift economic sanctions on Iran if it accepts limits on its nuclear
program intended to prevent it from gaining nuclear weapons capability.
The group - Britain, Germany, France, Russia, China and the United States
- and the Iranians have made progress in some areas, but have been unable
to reach agreement on several core issues." http://t.uani.com/1pOCL6G
NYT:
"An Iranian woman convicted of murder for killing a doctor she said
had tried to rape her was executed on Saturday morning, despite
international condemnation of what Western human rights organizations described
as a miscarriage of justice and efforts by the Iranian president to
commute her death sentence. The woman, Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, admitted
during her trial in 2009 that she had killed Dr. Morteza Abdolali
Sarbandi, 47, a physician and a former employee of the Ministry of
Intelligence, but insisted that she had done so in self-defense. The case
attracted considerable attention in the West, where human rights
organizations organized campaigns declaring Ms. Jabbari innocent of
murder and said she was a symbol of injustice toward women. In Iran,
where many distrust the hard-line judiciary, which is known for its mass
trials and televised confessions, the case provoked much debate". http://t.uani.com/1wAmJTR
Nuclear
Program & Negotiations
Trend:
"Iran and the Netherlands discussed the ways to boost trade ties.
Iranian Chamber of Commerce Chairman Gholamhossein Shafe'i and the
Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion Managing Director Jan Siemons met
in the Netherlands and called for removing obstacles in order to boost
bilateral trade, the Fars news agency reported Oct. 26. Despite the fact
that the international sanction against the Iranian economy decreased the
bilateral trade to a great extent, the sanctions have not affected
relations between the two countries' private sectors, Shafe'i said.
According to the Iran Customs Administration, the Netherlands was the
35th biggest importer of non-oil goods from Iran and the seventh biggest
exporter of non-oil goods to the country in the previous Iranian calendar
year, which ended March 20, 2014. Iran exported $82.5 million worth
non-oil goods to the Netherlands and imported $961.3 million worth
non-oil goods from this European country". http://t.uani.com/1t75Ei3
RFE:
"In an October 23 keynote speech on the status of nuclear
negotiations with Iran, U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman cited
a verse by the great Persian poet Saadi. "Have patience; all things
are difficult before they become easy," Sherman, U.S. Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said in remarks that came a
month before the November 24 deadline for Iran and major world powers to
reach a lasting nuclear deal. The citation appeared to be an attempt by
Sherman to reach out to Iranians by showing respect for their culture and
love of poetry, an approach employed earlier by other U.S. officials as
well, including the American leader". http://t.uani.com/1nJt5i3
Human Rights
Reuters:
"Iranian security forces have released leading human rights advocate
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained after leading a protest against what
she called unfair legal practices in the Islamic Republic, she said on
Sunday. The lawyer and activist was picked up along with several friends
on Saturday on their way back from a sit-in outside Tehran's Bar
Association in Tehran. They were freed after a brief background check,
leaving only Sotoudeh in custody. 'I was held for seven hours and then
set free,' she told Reuters by telephone from Tehran. http://t.uani.com/1zxgowg
AFP:
"Iran has hanged a woman convicted of murdering a former
intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her,
defying international appeals for a stay of execution. Reyhaneh Jabbari,
26, who had been on death row for five years, was put to death at dawn,
the official IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor's office as
saying. The execution drew condemnation from the United States and human
rights monitor Amnesty International, which dubbed it "a bloody
stain on Iran's human rights record" and 'an affront to justice'. A
message posted on the homepage of a Facebook campaign set up to try to
save Jabbari noted the 'sad news' of her death, adding the words 'Rest in
Peace' alongside pictures of her as a young child". http://t.uani.com/1rv0g4t
Bloomberg:
"The Iranian government plans to beef up security in cities to bring
an end to acid attacks on women, the official Islamic Republic News
Agency reported, citing Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
Authorities don't have sufficient evidence to charge any of the suspects
detained in connection to the attacks, which were first reported this
month, Rahmani Fazli said yesterday. Four people have already been
released, news website No Andish reported, citing the acting police chief
for the province of Esfahan, where the incidents took place". http://t.uani.com/12LtFTg
Wash. Post:
"Rayhaneh Jabbari was 19 when she dropped by a coffeehouse and made
a call that would lead to her death. The call was about work, but
Jabbari, an interior designer, wasn't the only one listening. Nearby, as
reported in an international petition on her behalf, a man
"overheard" the conversation and approached her. He wanted her
advice on planned renovations in his office. So they set a date. That
day, the man, a former Iranian intelligence officer named Morteza
Abdolali Sarbandi, drove her not to his office, but to a 'rundown house.'
Inside, the petition said, 'Morteza quickly locked the door from inside,
put his arms around Jabbari's waist and told her that 'she had no way of
escaping.'' Jabbari said she got hold of knife and, following a scuffle,
stabbed Sarbandi. He bled to death". http://t.uani.com/1xvupFj
Foreign Affairs
The Hill:
"In the heat of the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State, a
Sunni extremist group that has invaded large parts of Iraq and Syria, a
recent report by Amnesty International gives a stark warning that not
addressing extremism in its entirety and making the wrong decisions can
lead to the deepening of the sectarian rift in Iraq and eventually
trigger an irreversible disaster. The document, which is based on
thorough research in war-torn areas in Iraq, gives horrendous accounts of
crimes recently committed in Iraq by Shiite extremist groups against the
background of the fight against the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS
or ISIL). Groups sanctioned, backed and funded by the Iranian regime, and
agents of the administration of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki have been targeting the Sunni community seemingly in reprisal
or revenge for Islamic State attacks and at times also to extort money
from the families of those they have abducted". http://t.uani.com/1v1kYek
Trend:
"A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Moscow on Oct. 26 to
hold talks with senior Russian officials, Iran's Ambassador to Russia
Mehdi Sanaei wrote on his Facebook page.The delegation which includes six
members of Iran-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group, is also
accompanied by a delegation from Iran's western Hamadan province.The
parliamentary delegation is also scheduled to visit Russia's Chechnya,
meanwhile the provincial delegation will holds meetings in Moscow and
Yekaterinburg.Iran's Vice-President in Science and Technology Affairs
Sourena Sattari is also slated to travel to Moscow on Oct. 27 for a
four-day official visit, Sanaei said. He added that Sattari will hold
talks with the high-ranking Russian officials including deputy prime
ministers, Dmitry Rogozin and Arkady Dvorkovich as well as the minister
of education and science, Dmitry Livanov". http://t.uani.com/1wBjNGt
Opinion &
Analysis
Alex Vatanka in
CNN: "Another round of nuclear talks ended late
Thursday in Vienna. Nothing good, bad or even surprising has publicly
emerged from the two-day talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries. Given
the overall trajectory of the nuclear talks in recent months -- to
external viewers a dreary process of back and forth, bluster and stalling
despite a shared desire to continue talking -- two outcomes appear more
or less certain. First, the much-anticipated November 24 deadline for a
permanent deal will not be met. Second, the talks will continue and the
negotiating teams need to decide whether they need three months, six
months -- or any other length of time -- to try to reach a final deal.
Given the high stakes, and the reality that there are no alternative
means of moving forward other than continuing talks, all sides are
apparently buckling down". http://t.uani.com/1wuYqWz
Sohrab Ahmari in
WSJ: "The Iranian regime last week lost one of its
leading clerical authorities. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani died
while in a months-long coma on Tuesday, at age 83. He was one of many
cruel figures catapulted to power by Iran's 1979 revolution-a Shiite
Torquemada who oversaw the Islamic Republic's early orgies of
bloodletting, and who engineered the regime's crackdown against religious
minorities. Born in 1931 in the village of Kan, near Tehran, Mahdavi-Kani
left home as a teenager to become a seminarian in Qom. His instructors in
the holy city included Ruhollah Khomeini, the scowling ayatollah who
would go on to lead the popular uprising that overthrew the shah's
regime. Returning to Tehran in 1961, Mahdavi-Kani emerged as one of
Khomeini's top lieutenants". http://t.uani.com/1v4fnnw
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