Source: CCTV AMERICA
the price of U.S. crude has slumped below $75 a barrel, a four year low. While that’s good news for drivers, it’s not so good for oil-exporting nations such as Iran. The country is already exporting lower levels of oil due to international sanctions. CCTV America’s Nathan King reported the story from Washington D.C.
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the amphibious transport ship USS Ponce has been patrolling with a prototype 30-kilowatt-classLaser Weapon System since late August, according to officials. The laser is mounted facing the bow, and can be fired in several modes — from a dazzling warning flash to a destructive beam — and can set a drone or small boat on fire.
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Thursday that important questions still needed to be resolved regarding Iran’s nuclear programme but that it hoped to reach an agreement by Nov. 24.
Source: London Evening Standard
By: KIRAN RANDHAWA
A British woman jailed in Iran for trying to watch a men’s volleyball match is facing new charges that could see her spend years behind bars.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, from Shepherd’s Bush, has already been sentenced to one year in prison after attending a peaceful protest in Tehran this summer against the Iranian ban on women attending men’s sports events.
(Reuters) – The U.S. senators behind a tough sanctions bill against Iran said on Wednesday they would push for more penalties against Tehran if they are unhappy with any nuclear deal, signaling a potential battle with the Obama administration less than two weeks before the deadline for an agreement.
New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez and Illinois Republican Mark Kirk said a “good deal” would require strict limits on nuclear-related research, development and procurement and a robust inspection regime for decades in Iran.
Source: AFP
TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday an Iranian-British woman arrested in June after trying to attend a men’s volleyball match was being held for security reasons and over “links with foreigners”.
Ghoncheh Ghavami’s lawyer said earlier this month that the 25-year-old law graduate from London had been sentenced at the start of November to a year in prison, but the judiciary on Monday denied any verdict has been reached.
Source: ROLL CALL
By Kenneth Maginnis
It is more than simply unfortunate that Western policymakers look at Iran and appear to see only what they want to see. They heap praise on progress in the nuclear negotiations without looking at the actual content. They tune into televised smiles and reasonable-sounding public statements from the Rouhani administration and tune out the bombastic threats, insults and anti-Western rhetoric that invariably accompanies them. They push for large-scale rapprochement with Iran on the apparent assumption that its crimes will disappear if we somehow pretend they don’t exist.
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More than 200 veterans and their families have filed a lawsuit against six international banks, accusing them of helping Iran transfer millions of dollars to militant groups that targeted and killed U.
S. soldiers during the Iraq war.
Source: THE WASHINGTON POST
By Brian Murphy November
The West is facing a “make-or-break moment” to reach a deal with Iran in nuclear talks, German’s foreign minister urged Tuesday after high-level negotiations failed to reach a breakthrough.
The appeal by Germany — part of a six-nation group in talks with Iran — underscores the growing pressures to reach a general pact before a self-imposed Nov. 24 deadline.
BEIRUT/VIENNA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, four of them Syrian and one Iranian, on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, a monitoring group said on Monday.
No one claimed responsibility and Syrian and Iranian state media did not mention the attack, which occurred in an area controlled by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
