Source: Forbes.com
By: Amir Basiri, Guest writer
In Iran, a recent spate of acid attacks against women and the execution of a young woman charged with murdering her alleged rapist have turned the spotlight on the issue of women’s rights in the country.
Source: News Max
Secretary of State John Kerry has come under fire from both sides of the Senate for his handling of the nuclear talks with Iran, after it was announced that there would be another extension to the delicate negotiations.
Source: Ruters
LONDON – Some commodity fund managers believe oil prices could slide to $60 per barrel if OPEC does not agree a significant output cut when it meets in Vienna this week.
Source: Fox news
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly has proposed extending talks about the future of Iran’s nuclear program past a Monday evening deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement on the issue.
Source: The New York Times
VIENNA — Behind the efforts to close a nuclear deal with Iran this weekend lies a delicate question that has been little discussed in public: how to design an agreement to maximize the chances that Western intelligence agencies would catch any effort to develop an atomic bomb at a covert site.
(Reuters) – The United States plans to buy arms for Sunni tribesmen in Iraq including AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds to help bolster the battle against Islamic State militants in Anbar province, according to a Pentagon document prepared for Congress.
Source: Fox News
Talks between Western diplomats and their Iranian counterparts appeared to be at a stalemate Sunday as the deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement about the fate of Tehran’s nuclear program crept closer.
The Wall Street Journal, citing a senior Western diplomat, reported late Saturday that reaching a final agreement by a Monday deadline was “impossible,” though a deal setting out the key principles of a final agreement is not out of reach.
Source: CHICAGO SUN TIMES
By: Irwin cotler
It has been almost a year since the start of negotiations between the P5 + 1 countries (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. However, it appears unlikely that an agreement will be reached by the November 24 deadline. Indeed, the best that can be expected by then, according to at least one Western official, is “the outline of a final deal, but probably not the deal itself.”
Iran Focus: Iran has been advancing its project to build a nuclear bomb for at least 20 years, a report from the International Committee In Search of Justice has said.
Source: Town hall
By:reymond tanter
Obama properly uses “pure evil” to condemn beheading of an American citizen by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); he does not censure the Iranian regime, which engages in public hangings of political dissidents and encourages Baghdad to oppress the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)—Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty, Iraq.
