Source: Voice of America
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohmmad Javad Zarif have begun face-to-face talks in Oman just two weeks ahead of a deadline for reaching a nuclear deal.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is also taking part in Sunday’s talks.
sourse:fox news
Agency claims Iran still working toward nukes
Hours after the UN’s nuclear agency said that its attempts to investigate allegations that Iran worked on nuclear weapons, an Iranian opposition group claimed to have information showing the country is still working toward nuclear weapons.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran released information in a Washington press conference saying there were two explosive chambers build by AzarAb industries as part of a highly classified project that only two senior Iranian officials knew about. The two chambers were reportedly used for high explosive tests as part of the program.
Claims of second explosive chamber raise new questions as talks reach deadline
Source: THE WASHIGTON FREE BEACON
BY: Adam Kredo
Iran’s illicit nuclear program could be more advanced than previously believed, according to new information released Friday by an Iranian dissident group that raises new questions about what Tehran has been hiding from nuclear inspectors.
Iran is said to have built and still be in possession of two explosive chambers that have allowed the regime to conduct advanced testing of nuclear weapons, according to new information published by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an Iranian opposition group that has exposed Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities in the past.
AFP: The US has put forward a “framework” plan to meet Iran’s energy needs, President Barack Obama revealed Wednesday, but warned it was unclear if a deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions would be struck.As a November 24 deadline for an historic accord between Iran and global powers looms, Obama said the coming weeks would test the true intentions of the Islamic republic after a decade of stop-start global efforts.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, the Iranian woman who was hanged on Saturday by the Iranian regime after 7 years imprisonment had released her will in a voice message.
In her heartbreaking message to her family in April – beginning with her mother Sholeh – 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari she tells how she trusted the law under the criminal rule of mullahs in Iran, but has faced death for the crime of defending herself against an agent of Iranian regime’s intelligence who tried to abuse her.
Reyhaneh Jabbari’s voice message in Persian which is considered her will or last letter has been translated to English and distributed by the Iranian opposition coalition the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
AFP: A deal on Iran’s contested nuclear program before a November 24 deadline is highly unlikely, a Western diplomat close to negotiations said on Monday.
“There are four-and-a-half weeks left to conclude a definitive pact. We are hoping for that but the chances are very slim,” the diplomat said.
TEHRAN, Iran (Associated Press) – Hundreds of Iranians have rallied in the central city of Isfahan to protest a string of acid attacks on women there in recent months.
Wednesday’s rally is the latest in the public outcry that has followed the attacks, which are extremely rare in Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A leading Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Mohammadreza Mahdavi Kani, who headed the country’s most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the nation’s supreme leader, has died. He was 83.
Kani was the chairman of the Assembly of Experts, a body of 86 senior clerics that monitors the supreme leader and picks a successor after his death. That makes it potentially one of the most powerful institutions in Iran, although it does not involve itself the daily affairs of state.
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iranian security services have arrested several suspected spies in the southern province of Bushehr where the country’s first nuclear power plant is located, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
Iran has repeatedly cited signs of what it calls foreign plots to sabotage its nuclear programme, which world powers fear could be put to developing an atomic bomb capability and are seeking to curb through high-level negotiations, with a deadline of Nov. 24 for an accord.
National Post: Before it was shut down two years ago, the Iranian embassy in Ottawa funded a controversial cultural centre in the capital, a former senior administrator at the vacant diplomatic post has acknowledged in a sworn affidavit.
While on paper the Iranian Cultural Centre was run by the non-profit Mobin Foundation, the administrator described for the first time how the embassy paid the salaries of teachers who worked there and “sometimes paid other expenses.”
