Iran News Round Up

The Iran News Round Up ran from February 2009-September 2018. Visit the Iran File for the latest analysis.

 

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by Ali Alfoneh, Ahmad Majidyar and Michael Rubin To subscribe to this daily newsletter, e-mail [email protected].

(E) = Article in English

 

Iranian officials accuse U.S., Israel of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist; Rafsanjani condemns assassination of Mohammadi, but makes no allegations against foreign countries; Syria to increase import of natural gas from Iran; Mottaki in Tripoli for bilateral talks; Turkey voices opposition to likely new sanctions against Iran

 

Politics

Military and Security

Trade

  • Syria to import more natural gas from Iran.

  • [E] The National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) has signed a short-term agreement to import natural gas from neighboring Azerbaijan. "During the three-month period of the contract, the two sides will discuss another long-term agreement to import natural gas from Azerbaijan, up to 2 billion cubic meters per year," said NIGEC managing director Seyed Reza Kasaeizadeh.

  • [E] Iran has urged Russia to make use of the two countries' national currencies instead of dollar in settling accounts for their joint projects, adding this measure would accelerate the implementation of giant projects.  

Religion, Society and Culture

Diplomacy

  • [E] Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Tripoli, Libya for a three-day visit to discuss ways to improve mutual cooperation between the two countries in different fields. Mottaki is heading a high-ranking politico-economic delegation in the visit made on the official invitation of his Libyan counterpart Musa Kusa.

Media

Nuclear

  • [E] The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, says there is no evidence that Iran is planning to build nuclear weapons.

  • [E] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced support for Iran’s nuclear program. "We do not want nuclear weapons in our region. But it would be unfair to ask one country not to obtain nuclear weapons while another country in the region already has them," the Turkish 'Zaman' daily quoted Erdogan as saying.

    • [E] Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara is against imposing further sanctions on Iran over the country's nuclear program. "Every country has the right to pursue nuclear power for peaceful purposes," Davutoglu told the British daily Guardian during his recent visit to London. "We also don't want more sanctions [on Iran]. Sanctions hurt ordinary people and neighboring countries," he added, repeating a former Turkish offer to mediate negotiations between Tehran and the West. "We don't forget the very bad experience in Iraq. We would advise intensified negotiations through diplomacy. An absence of mutual trust is the problem," he said.

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