Eye on Iran: Iran Nuclear Inspectors Said to Hand Final Judgment to Nations

Join UANI           Top Stories Bloomberg: "Investigators probing Iran will let national officials from places including the U.S., China and Russia decide if the Persian Gulf country hid a nuclear weapons program, according to two officials familiar with their work.  The International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection team will likely have to make an assessment based on incomplete information and let its board of nationally-appointed governors draw definitive conclusion about the country's past nuclear work, said the two senior international officials, who asked not to be named because the information isn't public... The IAEA's inability to provide a conclusive assessment means the final decision on whether to close the file on Iran will be taken by political appointees rather than scientists." http://t.uani.com/1qAJJjz Reuters: "Iran is far apart from the six world powers negotiating with it over scaling back its nuclear program, but that gap could be narrowed in talks next week, the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Monday... 'My hope is that we will make progress. ... We believe although we are far apart, there is the possibility of being able to narrow the gap,' Catherine Ashton told reporters in Ottawa when asked about her expectations for the New York round. 'But we are determined in so doing to do it fully aware that the world is watching and expecting that any agreement must be a good and positive one if it can be found.'" http://t.uani.com/1rAetgM Al-Monitor: "In a speech in the holy city of Mashhad, President Hassan Rouhani criticized strict enforcement of the veil in Iran and said that society does support wearing of the veil. During a different speech to a more conservative crowd, he said people had 'given blood' for the veil in Iran. 'Do we think that elevating a society is [done] through vans and minibuses and policeman and soldiers? Culture is not made right by this,' said Rouhani, referring to the controversial practices of the religious police, who enter major city squares and arrest or fine women for liberally interpreting the country's hijab laws. Often, young violators are rounded up in vans and taken to a local police station... Rouhani continued, 'Our society wants the hijab and modesty. ... It protects the strength of the family.' He added, 'The hijab is for creating security for women. It's clear that everyone wants security ... but what is the way?' ... 'This land fought and struggled and gave blood for the hijab and modesty,' he said, adding, 'It will not allow the legacy of the criminal Pahlavi dynasty to present itself.'" http://t.uani.com/1uH5PQN   Sanctions Relief AFP: "Tehran said Tuesday it would enhance energy cooperation with Russia but there would be no imminent oil-for-goods deal of the kind that has raised concerns in Washington. 'Iran and Russia have agreed to cooperate in the energy field,' Ali Majedi, Iran's deputy oil minister, told the ISNA news agency. 'We will develop cooperation in oil, gas, petrochemicals and refineries,' he said, but added: 'The issue of an exchange of goods for oil is absolutely not on the agenda.' The White House has expressed 'serious concern' over a rumoured barter deal that would potentially circumvent US-led sanctions over Iran's nuclear drive." http://t.uani.com/WM8xJr Reuters: "Moscow and Tehran are in talks on supplying Russian grains to Iran in exchange for oil, Andrey Gormakh, first deputy chief executive of Russia's state grain trader, United Grain Company, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Russia and Iran have been discussing their oil-for-food deal since early 2014, but are yet to agree on details, highlighting the difficulties the two major energy producers face due to sanctions from the West. RIA news agency quoted Gormakh as saying that United Grain Company was ready to supply between 1 and 2 million tonnes of grain to Iran per year. That would be worth between $250 and $500 million, according to Reuters calculations based on the current price for Russian wheat. 'This question is being discussed at the working meeting, but we've not been informed of the solution to the financial question,' RIA quoted Gormakh as saying on the sidelines of a Russian-Iranian business forum in Tehran." http://t.uani.com/1uH6b9V Reuters: "South Africa is looking to resume oil imports from Iran, once its biggest supplier of crude, and hopes to resolve 'sanction issues' that have blocked purchases within the next three months, its deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday. South Africa halted crude purchases from Iran in June 2012 because of Western pressure. South Africa bought around 68,000 barrels of oil per day from Iran in the month before exports halted, around a quarter of its crude oil needs. The announcement by deputy South African foreign minister Nomaindiya Mfeketo came after more than a day of talks in Pretoria with her Iranian counterpart." http://t.uani.com/1rUKshT Press TV (Iran): "Spanish firms are prepared to cooperate with Iranian companies active in developing mines and relevant industries, a senior Spanish contractor says. The International Relations Director of Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations (CEOE) Jose Garcia Morales made the remarks on Monday as he along with Spanish Ambassador to Iran Pedro Villena met Mehdi Karbasian, the head of the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO), in Tehran. Morales said Spanish companies involved in steel manufacturing and mining are ready to cooperate with Iran." http://t.uani.com/1tHpmDB Sanctions Enforcement & Impact Tasnim (Iran): "Iran warned the US that it will not tolerate any new sanctions in the future as it considers them as violation of the interim nuclear deal signed between Tehran and six world powers. 'We have been very clear, when we met Americans two days ago, that we cannot tolerate such measures (new anti-Iran sanctions) anymore in the future and we certainly consider them as a violation of Geneva agreement,' Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi told British television broadcaster Channel 4 News." http://t.uani.com/1rAoavC Domestic Politics AFP: "More than two thirds of young Iranian Internet users are using illegal software to reach websites that are officially banned, government research cited by media said Monday. The study, by the research centre of the ministry of sport and young people, was publicised just one day after President Hassan Rouhani said existing Internet controls were counter-productive. Mohammad Taghi Hassanzadeh, head of the research centre, said that '69.3 percent use proxies (servers in other countries) to circumvent censorship and go on the Internet', according to ISNA news agency. Iran has a filtering policy that makes popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube inaccessible without the use of prohibited software capable of creating a VPN (Virtual Private Network) across a regular public Internet connection." http://t.uani.com/1tHmrL9 Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 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