Iran Pars RTL Lab rescue robot drone save lives
November 19, 2013 (Persian calendar 1392/8/28) RTS laboratory http://www.rtsideas.com Earlier 2013, RTS Lab unveiled its concept for Pars , an aerial robot that flies out over a large...
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Iran, Venezuela vow to #39;neutralise #39; oil price problem
Tehran (AFP) - Iran #39;s President Hassan Rouhani, flanked by Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, vowed Sabbatum to "neutralise" the threat display to each countries by plummeting oil costs,...
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Story highlights Republicans are poised to wield their new Senate majority to push new Iran sanctions But the fight isn't won as a presidential veto looms and opponents gear up to stave off a veto-proof majority Republicans will need 15 Democrats to sign on for a veto-proof majority, including 7 who backed off last year or didn't sign on at all
One year after a Republican-led coalition in the Senate came up just short of a deal, GOP lawmakers are poised to wield their new power in the Senate to push a bill authorizing additional sanctions against Iran. But the new 54-member majority doesn't guarantee that Republicans can muster the 67 votes they need to override a presidential veto, and the fight is already underway for the votes that could fill the gap.
With fewer than two months until diplomats' March 1 framework agreement deadline, and expecting the White House to start knocking on swing senators' doors, supporters know the clock is ticking to pass a sanctions bill they say will ratchet up pressure on Iran. But for opponents of additional sanctions, the ticking is more like a time bomb as a sanctions bill will torpedo negotiations and set the U.S. on a path to war with Iran, they claim.
For Sen. Mark Kirk, the Republican half of the Kirk-Menendez sanctions bill he has pushed for the last three years, the sooner a sanctions bill hits the Senate floor, the better -- both politically and policy-wise.
"If the Senate was allowed to vote tomorrow, I would be able to get two-thirds," Kirk said Sunday in a phone interview. "Now is the time to put pressure on Iran especially with oil prices so low. We are uniquely advantaged at this time to shut down this nuclear program."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), another major proponent of the legislation, told CNN last month the Kirk-Menendez bill "will come up for a vote in January," a pledge he made the same day to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting in Jerusalem.
Kirk said he backed that timing but insisted that it depends on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. A McConnell spokesman called the legislation "a priority," but said there isn't yet a schedule for a sanctions bill.
Republicans have been clamoring for additional sanctions on Iran, but with control of Congress in their hands, Republican lawmakers will also have to own the consequences of sanctions legislation -- which the President, State Department and Iranian officials have warned could derail negotiations.
"We have long believed that Congress should not consider any new sanctions while negotiations are underway, in order to give our negotiators the time and space they need to fully test the current diplomatic opportunity. New sanctions threaten the diplomatic process currently underway," a senior administration official told CNN.
The Kirk-Menendez bill that died in the Senate last year would reimpose sanctions on Iran if Obama couldn't certify that Iran doesn't finance terror groups that have attacked Americans and would keep Iran from maintaining low-level nuclear enrichment in a final deal, just a few terms that are much stricter than the current framework for negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 world powers.
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New Congress, new nuclear showdown over Iran
High-level meetings in Geneva in coming days will offer an early test of whether Iran is willing to show new flexibility in the stalled international negotiations on its nuclear program.
With only six weeks before the next deadline in the negotiations, Secretary of State John F. Kerry will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday in the Swiss capital. The U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams will meet Thursday through Saturday, and on Sunday diplomats from all seven countries involved in the negotiations will hold a final session.
The negotiations were extended twice last year, after the two sides failed to meet deadlines for reaching a deal to limit Iran's nuclear development activities. But Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appeared to signal last week his interest in a deal, and Western officials hope to see whether Rouhani will return with new instructions from Iran's supreme leader that will allow completion of the several major issues that remain unresolved.
"There is hope that, having come so close, there will now be a decision to take the final steps," said a person close to the negotiations, who declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
Iranian officials insist that it is not they, but Western officials, who are intransigent.
The two sides have been negotiating for more than a decade to reach a deal that would ease international economic sanctions on Iran if it agrees to limit its nuclear activities. Iran insists it is not seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, but many countries believe it is at least trying to gain bomb-making know-how.
Kerry met Saturday in Munich with Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, who has served as an intermediary between the United States and Iran on the nuclear issue for several years.
Rouhani's eagerness for a deal seemed apparent in a speech last week in which he argued that reducing Iran's enrichment of uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear power, should not be construed as "compromising our principles and cause."
"Our cause is not linked to a centrifuge," he said in a Jan. 4 speech to economists in Tehran.
But Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate say over the program, seemed later to rebuff his subordinate's position. He said Wednesday that Iran would not give ground on the nuclear program, and called on the country to find ways to insulate itself from the pressure of sanctions.
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Nuclear talks in Geneva will be test of Iran's flexibility