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WSJ:
"The Obama administration is hailing the accord with Iran as a
victory in its campaign to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, but the
deal is already feeding concerns of Arab governments and some
proliferation experts that it could have the opposite effect. They
worry it could instead fuel the spread of dangerous technologies across
the Middle East and Asia. At issue is the agreement's acceptance of
Iran's demand that at the end of a broader diplomatic process, the
country will likely retain some ability to permanently produce nuclear
fuel through the enrichment of uranium... Successive U.S.
administrations have labored to deny the right to enrich uranium to
other countries-including allies South Korea, Jordan and the United
Arab Emirates-because of the risks of military use. By now accepting
Iran's ability to enrich, the international powers that signed off on
the deal risk opening the floodgates for other countries to demand the
same right, said Arab diplomats and proliferation experts. The U.A.E.'s
foreign minister, Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan, has said if his
government has forsworn enrichment, so should Iran. 'Somehow, Obama's
nuclear team thinks it can let Iran make nuclear fuel, but get others
like Saudi Arabia and South Korea to forswear doing so,' said Henry
Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education
Center, a Washington think tank. 'If so, we're all in for a rude
awakening.'" http://t.uani.com/1fSZ9uU
FT:
"Hassan Rouhani, Iran's new president, has insisted that Tehran
will not dismantle its nuclear facilities, as advocated by Israel and
US hawks but has held out hope for an end to its long estrangement with
Washington. In an interview with the Financial Times in Tehran, Mr
Rouhani struck a tough line on Iran's expectations over a comprehensive
nuclear deal to be negotiated following last weekend's landmark interim
pact. 'One hundred per cent [no],' he said... Mr Rouhani's comments
contrast with the views of many in the US Congress who believe that a
final-stage deal would need to include the closure of the Fordow
enrichment facility, built beneath a mountain, and the Arak heavy water
reactor, which could be used to manufacture plutonium. A US Senate aide
said of the Iranian president's remarks: 'This is precisely the sort of
comment that is going to make some people in Congress very nervous.'
... Among the most contentious issues will be the size of any low-level
uranium enrichment facilities that Iran will be allowed to keep, and
the fate of some of the plants that pose the greatest worry. Mr Rouhani
said the size of the nuclear programme should be determined by his
country's energy needs." http://t.uani.com/IAEduc
AFP:
"Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said Tehran will never
abandon the Arak heavy water reactor, considering it a 'red line' in
talks with world powers, media reported Sunday. 'Your actions and words
show you don't want us to have the Arak heavy water reactor which means
you want to deprive us of our rights,' Salehi was quoted as saying by
the website of state broadcaster IRIB. 'But you should know that it is
a red line which we will never cross, likewise enrichment' of
uranium... Abbas Araqchi, a deputy foreign minister and member of the
nuclear negotiating team, insisted Arak 'should remain as a heavy water
power plant', the official IRNA news agency reported... The West and
Israel say Iran could use plutonium produced by the reactor to build
nuclear weapons. Tehran says the 40-megawatt reactor is for scientific
and medical research only. Salehi also rejected the charge, saying
'Arak's reactor does not produce the type of plutonium suitable for a
bomb'. 'We want to have more heavy water reactors in future,' he
added." http://t.uani.com/18xP8RC
 Nuclear Program
AP:
"Iran's nuclear chief said Sunday that the Islamic Republic needs
more nuclear power plants, the country's official news agency reported,
just after it struck a deal regarding its contested nuclear program
with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi said the additional nuclear power
would help the country reduce its carbon emissions and its consumption
of oil, IRNA reported. He said Iran should produce 150 tons of nuclear
fuel to supply five nuclear power plants. 'We should take required
action for building power plants for 20,000 megawatts of electricity'
in the long term, Salehi said... Iran's only nuclear power plant, near
the southern port of Bushehr, produces some 1,000 megawatts of
electricity. The plant came online with help from Russia, which will
provide fuel for it through 2021. Salehi said Iran is in talks with
several countries - including Russia - to build four more nuclear power
plants to produce 5,000 megawatts of power in the near future." http://t.uani.com/1cNcDmY
AFP:
"Iran and Russia are in talks to build another nuclear plant at
Bushehr, with construction set to begin in 2014, media Sunday reported
nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi as saying. 'With the progress made in
the Geneva talks, next year we will see the start of construction on
another nuclear power plant in Bushehr,' said Salehi of the landmark
deal clinched with world powers on Tehran's disputed nuclear drive. He
did not elaborate on the new plant's power capacity, but Iran has
planned to build 1,000-megawatt plants. 'We are negotiating with the
Russians to produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity, and they have
expressed their readiness to build,' added Salehi, according to the
website of state broadcaster IRIB. He said that in the next phase, Iran
sought to produce 5,000 megawatts in electricity output from nuclear
power." http://t.uani.com/1fZgWQX
AFP:
"Iran will decide the level of uranium enrichment in its nuclear
programme based on its energy and other civilian needs, Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in remarks reported Saturday. His
remarks appeared to conflict with the landmark nuclear deal struck with
world powers in Geneva last weekend, which states that the enrichment
level must be mutually defined and agreed upon by both sides in further
negotiations. 'Iran will decide the level of enrichment according to
its needs for different purposes,' Zarif said late Friday night,
according to the official IRNA news agency. 'Only details of the enrichment
activities are negotiable,' he said, referring to a final accord with
the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany --
known as the P5+1 group -- that the parties hope to negotiate within a
year... 'We have always said we will not allow anyone to determine our
needs,' Zarif was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency. 'But we are
prepared to negotiate about it.'" http://t.uani.com/1ePd4PF
WSJ:
"The White House on Sunday faced sharp criticism of the Iran
nuclear deal struck last week from members of both parties who say the
accord doesn't go far enough. The U.S. and five other counties reached
an interim deal to freeze the expansion of Iran's nuclear program while
broader negotiations take place. But even some Democrats in Congress
say the U.S. gave up too much. 'I'm concerned about some elements,'
Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) said Sunday on CBS's 'Face the Nation.'
He's particularly worried about a sunset clause that could allow Iran
to be treated as a non-nuclear weapons state. 'That means that they
could, after that period of time, enrich uranium without any
consequence and without any limitations,' he said... Sen. Bob Corker
(R., Tenn.) offered even stronger doubts, calling the pact 'a total
victory' for Iran. 'It's very difficult to understand that at the
height of our leverage...we negotiated a deal of this nature with not a
single centrifuge being dismantled,' he said on the same program. 'All
of them spinning in perpetuity for the next six months.'" http://t.uani.com/IoF5lO
AFP:
"Iran and world powers are likely to meet 'next week' to discuss
implementation of a hard-fought deal they clinched on Tehran's disputed
nuclear programme, Iran's lead negotiator said Sunday... 'Possibly our
experts will hold a meeting next week in Vienna or Geneva to review the
details of implementing the agreement,' state broadcaster IRIB quoted
deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi, Iran's lead negotiator in the
talks, as saying. He added that the first phase of the accord, which
will be in force for six months, will be implemented once the finer
details have been thrashed out. Tehran's envoy to the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, indicated on Friday that Iran's
six-month freeze of its nuclear programme would start by early January.
Araqchi gave no date for the next round of talks but the ISNA news
agency, citing an Iranian official, said political directors of the
countries involved were expected to meet with IAEA officials in Vienna
on December 9 and 10." http://t.uani.com/1ht5SvW
Sanctions
Reuters:
"The U.S. State Department extended six-month Iran sanctions
waivers on Friday to China, India, South Korea and other countries in
exchange for their reducing purchases of Iranian crude oil earlier this
year... 'We will continue to aggressively enforce our sanctions over
the next six months, as we work to determine whether there is a
comprehensive solution that gives us confidence that the Iranian
nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes,' Secretary of
State John Kerry said in a statement... The State Department said
Turkey and Taiwan also qualified for the waivers. Malaysia, South
Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka, which no longer purchase oil from
Iran, also qualified for the exceptions." http://t.uani.com/1ePjVZn
WashPost:
"As much as any other foreign policy issue during President
Obama's five years in office, the question of Iran sanctions now finds
him at odds with a hefty portion of his own party's lawmakers, as well
as most Republicans. A bipartisan juggernaut of senior senators is
spending the remaining week of the Thanksgiving recess forging
agreement on a new sanctions bill that the senators hope to pass before
breaking again for Christmas... Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), one of the leading proponents of new
sanctions, said he wonders what all the fuss is about. 'From my
perspective, it strengthens the administration's hand' and positions
the United States 'for the possibility that [a permanent] agreement
cannot ultimately be struck,' Menendez said of a new sanctions bill.
'It would make clear to the Iranians if they don't strike a deal, this
is what's coming.' 'I find it interesting that the Iranians can play
good cop, bad cop with 'hard-liners' in their country,' he added, while
'we can't.' ... If Congress waits to fashion a sanctions package and
there is no final deal, he said, Iran may well have the four to six
weeks he believes it needs to fashion a nuclear weapon before lawmakers
could respond. Despite its resistance, he said, the administration 'may
very well be very happy to have that extra tool' as it enters new
negotiations." http://t.uani.com/1861DDz
WSJ:
"While Western powers have identified a small group of sectors for
Iranian sanction relief, a much wider set of European and U.S.
companies-from pharmaceutical firms and medical-equipment makers to
food companies and traders-also stands to regain lost Iranian trade as
soon as relief measures are formally adopted next month. Western
governments singled out Iran's automotive and aviation sectors for
temporary sanction relief, while allowing petrochemical exports and
trade in gold and other precious metals. But the fine print of the deal
also clears the way for GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Sanofi SA, for
example, to restart selling many of the drugs they had been forced to
cut back on because of increasingly stiff financial sanctions. Siemens
AG, meanwhile, may now also be able to send in more medical devices.
These and billions of dollars of other goods have long been classified
as humanitarian in nature and not specifically subject to sanctions.
But banking and insurance restrictions enforced as part of the overall
sanctions regime prevented companies in many cases from getting paid,
curbing European and U.S. exports to Iran of everything from wheat and
chocolate bars to diabetes medicine... The value of exports from the
European Union to Iran fell 45%-or by €3.4 billion ($4.6 billion)-in
the first nine months of this year, compared with the same period in
2011, according to EU data. Because most other types of goods have long
been banned from Iran, the large majority of this reduction in trade
hit things like agricultural products, food or medical goods." http://t.uani.com/1bDDbtO
AFP:
"Major carmakers and parts suppliers showed up in Tehran on
Saturday to assess the Iranian market's 'considerable potential,' just
one week after Iran's historic nuclear agreement with world powers. The
International Conference of the Automotive Industry, the first such
event in Iran, has brought together more than 150 companies from around
the globe, according to organisers... Gilles Normand, director of
operations for Renault in the Asia-Pacific market, said the Middle East
represented a 'future market' for all manufacturers. In Iran, '50 percent
of the fleet of over 20 million vehicles is more than 25 years old,'
said Normand, whose company's activities in Iran have been severely
affected by US sanctions. Renault, present since 2004 in Iran, sold
more than 100,000 cars in 2012, accounting for 10 percent of the
market. Peugeot, which left Iran in spring 2012, sold 458,000 vehicles
the previous year in Iran. The French firm has renewed ties with its
longstanding partner, Iran Khodro, said a source within Iran's top car
manufacturer. 'We had good talks,' the source told AFP." http://t.uani.com/1isqTrZ
AP:
"Iran's auto industry has been particularly hard hit by the
sanctions. Car production in Iran this year fell by 72 percent compared
to 2011, when it produced some 1.6 million cars. The sanctions relief,
due to start in early January, allows for the French companies to
resume auto parts to Iran's biggest carmakers Iran Khodro and SAIPA.
Some 100,000 Iranian auto workers have been laid off because of
sanctions. Plants in the country now run at less than half their
capacity... Iran Khodro's manager, Hashem Yekeh Zare, said his company
is considering a joint project with Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz, but
didn't elaborate. Zare said his company is seeking greater
self-sufficiency and is interested in importing auto parts and licenses
for joint production." http://t.uani.com/IoFuEX
Reuters:
"Bijan Zanganeh returns this week to the same Vienna hotel suite
he last occupied eight years ago as Iranian oil minister, ready to
prepare OPEC for what Tehran hopes will mark its return as the cartel's
second biggest producer. Emboldened by its nuclear deal with the West,
Iranian oil negotiators led again by industry veteran Zanganeh, will
seek to reassert Tehran's authority in the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries at a Wednesday meeting. Western sanctions
imposed in 2012 on Iran for its nuclear program have cost it dearly,
losing it billions of dollars in oil revenues and market share in OPEC
- largely to its main regional political rival Saudi Arabia, and
neighbor Iraq." http://t.uani.com/18UNV51
Reuters:
"Better U.S.-Iranian relations would be very welcome for South
African mobile phone operator MTN Group as it has been unable to
repatriate around $450 million from a unit in Iran due to sanctions, a
company spokesman said. Johannesburg-based MTN, Africa's largest mobile
phone operator, said its funds had been blocked since early last year
because of Washington's sanctions against Tehran. 'Our primary focus
remains to ensure that we are sanction-compliant with everything we do
there,' said spokesman Nik Kershaw. 'But obviously it would be a great
outcome if things did improve.' MTN owns 49 percent of local unit MTN
Irancell, which contributed nearly 10 percent of its 2012
revenue." http://t.uani.com/18UMSlz
Reuters:
"Essar Oil reduced its imports of Iranian oil by 16.4 percent in
the first seven months of this fiscal year, tanker arrival data made
available to Reuters showed. The private refiner received about 91,000
barrels per day (bpd) oil from Iran in April-October, the data showed,
making up more than half of the total 170,000 bpd that India took from
the sanctions-hit nation... Essar shipped in 106,000 bpd from Iran in
October, a growth of 9.8 percent over September, the data shows." http://t.uani.com/1jbGKt0
Syrian
Conflict
Reuters:
"Prime Minister Wael Halki said on Saturday Syrian government
forces were winning the war with rebels and would not rest while a
single enemy fighter remained at large. Maintaining Syria's unyielding
response to Western calls for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside,
Halki said the era of 'threats and intimidation has gone, never to
return, while the era of victory and pride is being created now on
Syrian soil'. He was speaking during a visit to Iran, which has provided
military support and billions of dollars in economic aid to Assad
during a 2-1/2-year-old civil war which has killed 100,000 people and
shows little sign of being halted by diplomacy... 'The Syrian
government will not allow a single terrorist on Syrian territory,'
Halki told Iran's First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, according to
Syria's state news agency SANA. Jahangiri replied that Iran stood 'in
the same trench alongside Syria, supporting it at all levels against
the aggressive axis of evil' aligned against Damascus, SANA said."
http://t.uani.com/IFo0EF
Human Rights
IHR:
"Five prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons
today. According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in
Gilan (northern Iran) three prisoners were hanged in the prison of
Rasht early Sunday morning... The official website of the Iranian
Judiciary in Hormozgan (southern Iran) reported about [the] execution
of two people in the prison of Bandar Abbas." http://t.uani.com/1k1DP3E
Domestic
Politics
NYT:
"That pact, in which Iran's moderate government agreed to freeze
parts of its nuclear program for six months in exchange for limited
relief from crippling economic sanctions, was greeted with wild
enthusiasm in most quarters here. A conspicuous exception, however,
were Iran's hard-liners, who mostly maintained a studied silence,
unwilling to risk a public confrontation with their patron over the
years - the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has cautiously
welcomed the deal. But that silence may not last, experts say. At the
slightest signal from the supreme leader, they say, the hard-liners
could unleash protests by hundreds of thousands on the streets along
with an outpouring of criticism from state-run news media. 'They are
biding their time,' watching from the sidelines, eager to pounce on any
perceived signs of backtracking, weakness or capitulation, said Farshad
Ghorbanpour, an Iranian journalist close to the government of President
Hassan Rouhani. 'When the opportunity arises they will strike back,
searching for pretexts and playing into possible snags during the
negotiations,' he said. 'This is in no way a done deal.'" http://t.uani.com/1b8YJwN
Reuters:
"Iran's chief of police criticised officials on Monday for using
blocked social networking sites, an indication that resistance remains
against government plans to relax restrictions on such websites... 'The
manner in which some officials have slowly started to cross the red
line and enter into areas that citizens are prohibited from using is not
a good thing and everyone must be compliant in this field,' ISNA news
agency quoted Esmail Ahmadi-Moqadam as saying." http://t.uani.com/1eHuo8m
AP:
"Iranian state television is reporting that the number of
HIV-positive citizens in the country has skyrocketed over the last
decade. On Sunday, state television quoted Health Minister Hassan
Ghzaizadeh as saying there has been a nine-fold growth in the number of
HIV/AIDS patients in the decade." http://t.uani.com/1fZeMAU
Opinion
& Analysis
Shirin Ebadi & Payam Akhavan in
WashPost: "Even as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif sat with his Western counterparts last weekend in Geneva, shaking
hands and celebrating the interim six-month nuclear deal, the lifeless
body of a young man hung from a crane in a bleak public square in
Tehran, spreading fear among Iranians, who suffer the world's highest
per capita rate of executions. How can these stark contrasts be
reconciled as world leaders move to the next stage of rapprochement
with Iran? Diplomacy is, without doubt, preferable to war or to the
sanctions that have impoverished ordinary Iranians already struggling
in a corrupt and mismanaged economy. Under the shadow of negotiations,
however, Iran's appalling human rights situation has hardly changed. If
anything, the alarming rate of executions seems to have increased in
recent weeks. A handful of political prisoners have been released as a
symbolic gesture, but many still languish in inhumane conditions. The
torture of dissidents and the censorship of the media both continue as
before. The persecution of religious minorities such as Bahais and
Christians and of ethnic groups such as Ahwazi Arabs, Balochis and
Kurds likewise continues unabated. The hard-line leadership is letting
Iranians know that a strategic retreat in nuclear negotiations to end
sanctions does not translate into reform at home. Will the world
community disregard human rights in the coming months to conclude a
comprehensive nuclear deal? Some argue that a successful deal would
strengthen the reformists. Others contend that it would help the
hard-liners survive. Yet others argue that human rights must be trumped
by security concerns. None of these positions justifies silence on
abuses. If reformists genuinely seek change, they should welcome calls
for an end to executions, torture and religious persecution. If
hard-liners increase repression under the cover of international
legitimacy, they should be exposed. And if pundits believe that
appeasement of those espousing a hateful religious ideology will
guarantee long-term security, they should understand the difference
between political 'realism' and wishful thinking. An authoritarian
regime without legitimacy will invariably rule through
militarization... Iran's current leadership thrives on 'nuclear
nationalism.' It equates national interests with the absolute power of
a small, self-appointed ¬religious-military ruling class rather than
with the equal rights of its citizens. Even reformist President Hassan
Rouhani's proposed 'civil rights charter' is limited to members of
'heavenly' religions. In the theocratic ideology of the Islamic
Republic, human rights are conditioned on whether the state approves of
a citizen's beliefs. This is nothing less than religious apartheid. It
breeds fanaticism and violence. If there is no end to such abuses, how
can the Islamic Republic be trusted? Lasting change can be achieved
only through freedom for the Iranian people." http://t.uani.com/1cSt2pV
Ray Takeyh in
Politico: "The interim agreement reached between
Iran and six world powers is supposed to be the first step on a long
path of international diplomacy. Yet the accord, which temporarily
freezes Iran's nuclear program over the next six months, is already
proving contentious with the Obama administration insisting on the
deal's merits and congressional critics highlighting its concessions.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), for instance, urged that the
agreement be met 'with healthy skepticism,' while Sen. Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.) said that it 'does not seem proportional.' If the White House
wants talks to move toward a more comprehensive disarmament deal, it
will need to make its case not just to allies in the region but also to
a skeptical congressional audience - and soon. For the Iranians, a key
component of a more permanent agreement is the rollback of sanctions,
which fall to a U.S. Congress that has already been itching for further
penalties. Diplomacy with Iran hinges not only on the Islamic
Republic's compliance then but also Congress's buy-in. It is ironic
that U.S. policy toward Iran is becoming so divisive since beneath all
the bluster and bombast, this has been one of the most bipartisan
issues in a Capitol perennially divided against itself. The Obama
administration would be wise to nurture this rare bipartisan unity as
much as the international coalition it has assembled against Iran. It
was Condoleezza Rice's State Department, after all, that originated the
notion of a two-track policy of steadily increasing economic pressure
on Iran while seeking a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear issue.
Rice marshaled the United Nations Security Council to repeatedly
censure Iran and demand that it suspend all of its nuclear activities.
The Treasury Department, meanwhile, pursued an imaginative policy of segregating
Iran from global financial institutions. The Obama administration
inherited this policy, refined it and implemented it with discipline.
On the legislative side, all the Iran sanctions bills to date have
passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. Liberals and
conservatives have come together to punish the Islamic Republic for its
nuclear transgressions and sponsorship of terrorism. During the past
three decades, while many countries have been enticed by Iranian
commerce, Congress has distinguished itself by persistently holding
Tehran responsible for its human rights abuses. It is inappropriate to
attribute this consensus to the prodding of pro-Israeli groups.
American legislatures are perfectly capable of being offended by
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's penal colony without such
advocacy. The Obama administration can use this precedent of
cooperation to its advantage, but it must also acknowledge that
diplomacy with Iran cannot be concealed from congressional scrutiny. It
is time for the administration to breach its own walls of secrecy and
fully and frankly brief congressmen and senators about what happened in
Geneva. Going forward, the administration would be prudent to take into
consideration congressional concerns as it plots its course of action.
What's more, future American delegation to Iran talks should include
key Republican staffers from the relevant committees - not as mere
ornaments but as active participants in the talks and the many planning
sessions that usually precede such meetings. By firmly tethering the
two branches of government together, the White House can ensure that a
potential accord rests on a firm anchor... The White House might be
tempted to fire back at its critics, but it would be a mistake to
deride skeptical members of Congress as 'marching to war' with Iran.
The most realistic alternative to diplomatic stalemate or a bad deal is
not war but a more concerted pressure strategy that may yet compel
further concessions from a battered Islamic Republic. Republicans, in
turn, should desist from cheap comparisons of President Barack Obama to
Neville Chamberlain. This is not the 1930s, and Iran is not Nazi
Germany. It remains to be seen whether a comprehensive agreement
imposing stringent and permanent curbs on Iran's nuclear ambitions is
possible. Iran has long been an unreliable negotiating partner -
acceding to compromises under stress only to violate those commitments
at a more convenient time. Still, the White House cannot simply
negotiate an accord between Iran and the United States in secret
conclaves and then spring it on an incredulous legislature. If Congress
is not there on the takeoff, then it is unlikely to be there at the
landing." http://t.uani.com/18UKBXq
FT Interview of
Hassan Rouhani: "Iran's president is visibly
cheerful as he strides into a sprawling hall at his pink-marbled palace
in Tehran. Impeccably dressed in clerical black robe and white turban,
Hassan Rouhani, the new gentler face of the Islamic republic, has
encouraging news to share with visitors. Only a few days earlier,
Iranians noticed growing signs of fatigue on the 65-year-old
president's face, as if he had, in a matter of just a few months, aged
several years. But when he spoke to the Financial Times this week, Mr
Rouhani had capped his 100 days in office with the first signs of
improvement in an economy ravaged by sanctions and the monumental
mismanagement of the outgoing administration led by the populist
Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. Most significant was his 99th day, when he
delivered the six-month nuclear agreement with world powers, the first
easing of tensions with the west in a decade. The deal offered modest
relief from punishing international sanctions in return for Iran's
suspension of the most controversial parts of its nuclear programme...
One of Mr Rouhani's most troubling discoveries upon taking office was
to find the treasury empty. Astonishingly, Iran earned $600bn in oil
revenues over the past eight years, more than its total accumulation
since oil was discovered more than a century ago. The economy, however,
was on the verge of collapse. 'This government has inherited serious
economic problems,' begins the president, seated under a picture of the
two Ayatollahs who cast a long shadow over Iran - the late Ruhollah
Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and Ali Khamenei, the
supreme leader to whom Mr Rouhani answers. 'But we are very hopeful
about the future of the country's economy ... The nuclear deal has
created a positive atmosphere.'" http://t.uani.com/1gyba6l
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