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After Danesh-Ashtiani, President Rouhani’s fourth pick for the Ministry of Science, failed to secure the approval of parliament, he introduced Mohammad Farhadi to the chamber.
Ali Khorram, a former Iranian diplomat, says failure to strike a comprehensive deal in Vienna would be the worst possible scenario for nuclear negotiations.
Iran’s foreign minister has described his talks with P5+1 chief negotiator Catherine Ashton in Vienna as positive, saying the progress of the talks depends on the other party’s political will.
Week-long negotiations between Iran and P5+1 are to get underway in Vienna today, it still remains to be seen whether or not it will yield a final deal.
Islamic Revolution leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the enemy has created armed groups which kill civilians in the name of Islam only to promote Islamophobia.
Ali Larijani, the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, has said that Iran and Russia have amicable ties and continue their consultations on what is happening in the region.
The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said that conclusion of a final nuclear agreement will be a strong possibility if the other side takes a logical, non-political approach.
Hossein Kachouyan, a participant at a “Red Line” conference, has rejected a win-win deal between Iran and P5+1, saying that only one winner emerges from the battle between Islam and atheism.
Iran's intelligence minister says security forces have foiled a bomb attack targeting Muharram religious ceremonies in Qom, adding those involved in the pre-planned bomb plot were arrested before they could carry out the attack.
