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Iran ki sair | | Sahartv Urdu
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Iran Fars province, ATR 72 aircraft overhauled – Video


Iran Fars province, ATR 72 aircraft overhauled
January 23, 2015 (Persian calendar 1393/11/3) Fars province ( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fars_Province ATR-72 aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72 Iranian engineers...

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Give diplomacy with Iran a chance – The Washington Post

By Laurent Fabius, Philip Hammond, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federica Mogherini January 21

Laurent Fabius is Frances minister of foreign affairs and international development. Philip Hammond is Britains foreign secretary. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is Germanys federal minister for foreign affairs. Federica Mogherini is high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy.

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n November 2013, after many months of negotiations, the E3+3 (France, Germany and Britain, together with the United States, Russia and China, a partnership also referred to sometimes as the P5+1) and Iran reached an interim agreement on Irans nuclear program. This agreement has had three main benefits.

First, it has stopped the progress of the most sensitive elements of Irans nuclear program. Under the Joint Plan of Action agreed to by Iran and the six partners in the talks, which are being coordinated by the European Union, Iran has ceased production of its most highly enriched uranium, limited its production of new centrifuges for enriching uranium and refrained from installing additional centrifuges. Iran has also agreed to cease progress toward bringing on line the nuclear reactor at Arak. As a result, Iran today is further away from obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon than before the negotiations.

At the same time, the international community has gained improved access to Irans nuclear facilities, allowing the world to verify whether Iran is living up to its commitments. Whereas previous inspections only occurred once every few weeks, the International Atomic Energy Agency is now able to conduct daily inspections of the Natanz and Fordow facilities, and the Arak reactor is now subject to monthly inspections.

And last but not least, the interim agreement has given us time and space to try to negotiate a long-term settlement to the Iranian nuclear issue, which is critical for the future of international and regional security.

This progress would have been impossible without the international consensus on the threat posed by Irans nuclear program and the unity with which we have acted. Together, the international community built a sanctions regime that brought Iran to the negotiating table.

Today, the IAEA continues to verify that Iran is meeting its commitments. In exchange, we are fulfilling our commitment to provide Iran with limited sanctions relief, even as we continue to enforce our core sanctions regime and keep the pressure on Iran. And, during the past year, the six partners have worked in close consultation with each other and with our close allies to keep negotiating to see if we can achieve a comprehensive and lasting solution to the threat of a nuclear Iran.

Our objective remains clear. We want a comprehensive solution that both recognizes the Iranian peoples right to access peaceful nuclear energy and allows the international community to verify that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. Any agreement must provide concrete, verifiable and long-lasting assurances that Irans nuclear program is and will remain exclusively peaceful. Nothing less will do. It is now up to Iran to make a strategic choice between open-ended cooperation and further isolation.

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Saudi king's death unlikely to change rivalry with Iran

In Iran, Saudi Arabias longtime rival for influence in the Middle East, there is little expectation that King Abdullahs death will alter the deep enmity that has helped fuel hostilities and proxy battles throughout the region, including in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain.

In the near future, there will not be any letup between the two adversaries, said Nader Karimi Juni, a political analyst in Tehran. Iran and Saudi Arabia will never be friends. Each country has a hostile ideology toward the other.

President Hassan Rouhani and others offered their official condolences, but not much more was said publicly. Abdullah died Friday at age 90.

Press TV, the state-run English language news service, reflected the official view when it noted that, under Abdullahs rule, Saudi Arabia became an incubator for groups promoting extremism, including Al Qaeda offshoots such as Islamic State, which regard Iran as a bitter enemy.

The ill will between Saudi Arabia and Iran predates Irans 1979 Islamic Revolution. But many in Iran recall bitterly how Saudi Arabia backed former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war that left hundreds of thousands dead.

The geopolitical rivalry between the two regional giants has often become entwined with sectarian concerns centering on Islams two major branches. Officials in both Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia view themselves as global leaders of Islam.

Many Saudis do not view Shiites as true Muslims, and Iranian clerics routinely condemn Saudi Arabias severe Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, which is also embraced by many Sunni militants who target Shiites as apostates.

In recent years, Iran has more than held its own in its regional rivalry with Saudi Arabia, despite Riyadhs oil riches and its close ties to the United States. That has clearly frustrated Saudi officials and their allies in Washington. Saudi Arabia, like Israel, also views with alarm the prospect of U.S.-Iranian political rapprochement, should world powers finally reach an accord on Tehrans nuclear program.

The collapse this week of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen and the rise there of the Houthi minority, regarded by Riyadh as an Iranian proxy was a blow to the late kings regional strategy. Saudi Arabia now faces the disquieting prospect of an Iranian ally governing along its southern border. But that was just the latest regional setback for the monarchy.

The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which toppled Hussein, a Sunni, led to an upsurge in sectarian tension throughout the region. The U.S. invasion also had the unintended consequence of flipping Iraq toward Iran. Iraqs Shiite majority gained power in Baghdad. Riyadh fumed and funneled support to Iraqs disgruntled Sunni minority.

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Iran reach Asian Cup quarterfinals as Group C winners after victory over UAE – Video


Iran reach Asian Cup quarterfinals as Group C winners after victory over UAE
Asian powerhouse Iran took on the undefeated UAE in their final Group C match in Brisbane, in hot drenched weather, packed with moths and humid conditions th...

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