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Iranian foreign ministry says Tehran reviewing US response over JCPOA

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Iranian Foreign Minister Spokesman Nasser Kanaani

Kanaani said he cannot give a date on which Iran is done studying the US response but said this will happen once all the details are examined completely.

He added that all parties to the talks have stuck to the principle of confidentiality of the negotiations due to the sensitivity of the issue.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman further said that leaking the talks to the media will not help with the outcome of the discussions and the results must be declared in due course.

Kanaani once again described the sanctions removal talks between Iran and the other parties as sensitive, noting that Iran views the negotiations as positive and moving forward.

He underlined a few issues remain to be resolved and that most differences between Tehran and Washington have been fixed.

Kanaani however called the remaining issues as highly important and decisive.

Taliban say Pakistan allowing US drones into Afghan airspace

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US Drone

Acting Minister of Defence Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob told reporters at a news conference in Kabul that American drones have been entering Afghanistan via Pakistan.

“According to our information the drones are entering through Pakistan to Afghanistan, they use Pakistan’s airspace, we ask Pakistan, don’t use your airspace against us,” he said.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pakistani authorities have denied involvement in or advanced knowledge of a drone strike the United States said it carried out in Kabul in July that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Yaqoob’s comments could exacerbate tension between the neighbouring nations at a time when the Afghan Taliban is mediating talks between Pakistan and a Pakistani Taliban militant group. Afghanistan also relies heavily on trade with Pakistan as the country experiences an economic crisis.

The Taliban announced it is investigating the July air strike and that it has not found the Al Qaeda leader’s body.

Any deal between Iran, US would be merely a break in confrontation: Commentator

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Vienna Talks

“Even if a deal is made, it is common sense that it will be a break in the midst of confrontation,” Mehdi Mottahar-nia told ISNA on Sunday.

“Neither Tehran has changed its position, nor Washington has backed off from its demands. What has changed is their language.”

Mottahar-nia said the exchange of words between Iran and the US in written texts, unlike the former format of exchanging spoken words through European and other intermediaries, was better since responses were not being documented.

“There is not much difference between the two formats. Iran and the US aren’t directly negotiating in either way. The only difference is that… there are no travel costs [to Vienna]. By writing letters and written responses, issues are better documented and costs are cut, too,” he said.

The real talk is taking place between Iran and the United States, he said, and it is established that unless Tehran and Washington agree on a final text, European capitals and Beijing and Moscow cannot do anything.

Idle phase of Iran South Pars gas field to produce energy after 20 years

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Gas

Javad Owji said the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi has just launched huge projects to supply gas to rural and urban areas as well as industrial units.

Owji added that the oil ministry plans to complete projects that have remained half-finished for 10 to 15 years.

Owji then referred to some people’s criticism of the oil ministry’s move to reduce the unsubsidized gasoline amount in fuel cards in some provinces, including Sistan and Balouchistan.

He said the measures are meant to manage consumption and to control fuel smuggling.

The oil minister added that nowadays that Covid is subsiding, Iran is witnessing a surge in the number of trips by citizens and this has increased the consumption of gasoline up to 130 million liters per day.

This is while, the minister added, all refineries in Iran produce 102 to 104 million liters per day.

He underlined that the oil ministry will do all it can to prevent disruption in gasoline supply.

Thousands of Yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition: Health ministry

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IFP Media Wire
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Yemeni Children

Regarding the repercussions of the siege on the health situation in Yemen, the health ministry confirmed that the blockade has raised acute malnutrition rates to more than 632,000 children under the age of five and 1.5 million pregnant and lactating women.

The US-Saudi aggression has killed 15,483 citizens and injured 31,598 others, the ministry said during a press conference, adding that 25 percent of the victims were children and women.

It noted that the limited opening of the Sana’a international airport and Hudaydah port under the UN-sponsored truce has failed to meet the minimum needs of the health sector and patients.

The ministry pointed to the eight years of Saudi-led continued siege on Yemen and said 40,320 pregnant women and 103,680 children have died during this period.

“The siege and intense bombardment with prohibited weapons caused a high rate of congenital abnormalities and miscarriages, with an average of 350,000 miscarriages and 12,000 malformations,” it emphasized.

According to the ministry, the siege led to an eight percent increase in premature births compared to the situation before the aggression.

The blockade has also increased the number of cancer patients by 50 percent which reached 46,204 cases registered during the year 2021.

The ministry added that the Saudi-led aggression destroyed 162 health facilities completely or 375 partially and put them out of work.

The Saudi aggressor coalition’s direct bombings have killed 66 medical personnel and destroyed 70 ambulances, the ministry said, adding that the aggression continues to prevent the payment of the salaries of health sector cadres and employees.

While the Saudi-led aggression prevented the entry of vital medical equipment, international companies have also refrained from supplying medicines to Yemen as a result of the blockade, it noted.

The ministry emphasized that lifting the siege on Yemen and a complete end to the Saudi-led aggression are the “first and correct step to address the humanitarian crisis” in the war-ravaged country.

Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and other Western states.

The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.

While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Informed source rejects Iranian daily report on US stance regarding JCPOA revival talks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran US Flags

The source was referring to the report by the Jomroury-e-Eslami Daily.

He described the report as having nothing to do with truth and riddled with false information, adding that many of the points referred to by the newspaper are no longer the topic of negotiations.

The source noted that some foreign sides have waged a propaganda campaign to pressure Iran and they are spreading false information about the trend of the Vienna talks.

The Jomroury-e-Eslami newspaper recently claimed that the US has rejected three key demands of Iran that include guarantees that Western and Asian companies will do business with Iran.

According to this report, the US has said it cannot force any companies to do business in Iran.

The daily added that the other demand of Iran was that the US must give assurances that European companies will be shielded against sanctions.

Jomroury-e-Eslami says Washington has also rejected this demand, saying US President Joe Biden can give assurances that it will not prevent companies from working in Iran during his tenure and that he has no control over his successor.

The other demand pertains to SWIFT.

The newspaper claims the US has turned down Iran’s demand Tehran be allowed to use the system without abiding by SWIFT global payment system’s rules and regulations that require accession to the FATF.

Jomroury-e-Eslami says the US has said it cannot force SWIFT to change its rules and regulations.

The source stressed that under these circumstances, Iranian media should
act responsibly and avoid disseminating information that is dubious.

Iran, Russia to complete Garmsar-Incheh Borun railway

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Garmsar-Incheh Borun railway

Amin Tarafo’, the director general of the International Corridors Department of the ministry of transportation told Iran’s Labor News Agency (ILNA) Iranian officials held talks with the visiting Russian deputy minister of transport on Saturday to implement a train railway contract which links the central Iranian city Garmsar to Iran’s northeastern city of Incheh Borun near the border with Turkmenistan.

Tarafo’ said the Russian side will finance the electrification of the 500-kilometer Garmsar-Incheh Borun railway with a one-billion-euro loan and complete the project before the end of the current Iranian year, on March 21, 2023.
Preliminary and contractual measures have been completed over the past years and the project is now in the phase of construction.

Tarafo’ also said the Russian side is expected to announce its readiness for a joint cooperation with Iran to construct the Rasht-Astara railway in northern Iran.

Iran is pursing what it calls ‘transport policy’ with its neighbors via its vast network of railways as part of the country’s pivot to the east vision.

Body of ethics teacher Ayatollah Nasseri laid to rest in Iran’s Isfahan

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Body of Ayatollah Nasseri laid to rest in Iran

He passed away while hospitalized on Friday, after a period of illness.

The leader of the Islamic Revolution sent a message of condolence on his passing away, calling the late ayatollah a “great scholar and ethics teacher.”

Ayatollah Nasseri was born in the city of Dolatabad Norkhar near Isfahan in 1930.

He was a teacher at Isfahan’s seminary school and taught ethics and other Islamic topics in the city’s Kamar Zarrin mosque for years.

Local officials announced three days of mourning, starting from Saturday, for his passing away.

Central bank chief: Iran, Russia using national currencies in trade

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Rial Dollar

In an interview with Fars News Agency on Sunday, Ali Saleh-Abadi said the use of Iranian and Russian national currencies, rial and ruble respectively, was one of the priorities on the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi’s economic agenda.

Iran and Russia have already switched to their national currencies in a number of mutually-agreed markets and the two sides are making efforts to extend the mechanism to other trade fields as well, the senior official added.

He said that Tehran and Moscow had long been seeking to create a mechanism to replace the US dollar with their own national currencies as part of a joint de-dollarization agenda, regardless of the tough economic sanctions in place against the two nations.

Earlier, Mehdi Safari, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy, had told the Russian Sputnik News Agency that two countries needed to design a banking system similar to SWIFT in order to de-dollarize their exchanges.

EU’s Borrell says optimistic about prospect of talks on Iran deal revival

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Josep Borrell

Speaking to the Austrian Kronen Zeitung Daily, the top European diplomat said he had received the US response to a proposed EU-drafted agreement on reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and that it was now up to Iran to react, Iranian media citied him as saying.

He said the talks, which are coordinated by the EU, had reached an “important moment,” adding, “This is the last millimeter.”

A revival of the JCPOA — which has been in trouble since Washington’s withdrawal in 2018 — will make the world more secure, Borrell said.

Earlier, Nournews, a website close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said in a tweet the process of reviewing the American response to Tehran’s comments about the EU-led draft text would continue “at least until the end of the current [Persian calendar] week,” which ends on Friday.

Iran received the US response with a 10-day delay, which was criticized by the EU.

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