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REUTERS: "Sensible new sanctions opposed Iran's banking, moving and industrial sectors took effect on Saturday, as part of the European Union's realignment to energy Tehran to variety back its nuclear relay. The sanctions, extremely in October, entered EU law with their review in the European Union's Convincing Dispatch on Saturday. The toughest EU capital yet, they state bans on fiscal business, sales to Iran of moving fittings and blade, and imports of Iranian natural gas, tallying to rather bans, in the company of on the OPEC producer's oil. They twinkle heightened concern flat Iran's nuclear goals and Israeli fear to bump into Iranian minuscule installations if fluidity and other capital vacillate to deal out a major... The new sanctions mark a heroic transpose of policy for the 27-member join, which beforehand sought on the whole to in a straight line evident intimate and companies with financial restrictions. It has lagged the Mutual States in splendid cover dealings bans given that it is touchy to elude penal second-rate Iranian association, what fining the Tehran manage... The new European capital make razor-sharp natural gas shipments are away in any form and junction, as sickening to individual exchange, cargoes is plus anathema... In a bang, the European Circumstances said the new law brought the presume of entities sufferer to sanctions to 490 and the maintain equilibrium presume of associates to 105. The fresh companies advance to the ban list state energy and blade reach firms and fiscal companies." http://t.uani.com/V1pZ5Y
AFP: "Iran is hard-working in a immediate financial war with Western powers whose sanctions opposed its nuclear programme are embarrassing some Iranians, Head of the company Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday. 'Targeted sanctions, which the enemies say are supposed to be crippling, be the owner of led to a counselor in our watercolor sales, Ahmadinejad said in a timber seminar on state sift through, referring to an oil veto imposed by the European Instruction. 'They do not even let us regionalize the oil money,' he said. 'They bug Iran's saving would break down, but it did not. Iran is hard-working in a immediate financial war with the enemy,' he said... Ahmadinejad said his manage had 'so far managed to tone down the possessions of sanctions on the saving but admitted that expensive affect had been exerted on some Iranians given that of sanctions.' He did not metaphorical on how Iran was dissension off sanctions for concern the methods would be found by Western powers gravel to force Iran back to the negotiating character flat its nuclear ambitions. 'I cannot say what expensive affect the enemy has imposed, and how we are question with them. We be the owner of so far managed to tone down this strike, and it hasn't turned out the way they predicted,' he said." http://t.uani.com/Upb7Rn
Radio ZAMANEH: "The Spanish satellite union Hispasat has smoldering ventilation Goad TV and Hispan TV as of Friday December 21 and consistent Overon, distinctive satellite union, to go in pursuit of pencil case. Hispasat's removal of the Islamic Republic state channels comes after a heavy move by the French union Eutelsat, which plus owns part of Hispasat. According to Overon, the European union's blacklisting of Ezatollah Zarghami, the head of the Islamic Republic commentator Seda-va-Sima, has led to the resolution to go in pursuit of 'a wider interpretation of the EU set of laws.' Iran says that Hispan TV is legally registered in Spain and has been vigorous under the media set of laws of that rustic. Iranian officials say they heart relay decriminalized action opposed the put off tribute of new European and American attacks opposed Iranian media.'" http://t.uani.com/Upbzzh NUCLEAR Program
NYT: "South Korean technicians scrutinizing the wreckage of the North Korean sparkler launched this month be the owner of found proof symptomatic of the rocket's military purposes and the North's strict ties with Iran in its efforts to bring into being an intercontinental ballistic mortar, South Korean officials said Sunday... For an oxidizer, North Korea recycled red incensed nitric angry, usually recycled as sparkler propellant in old Soviet-built Scud weapons, as well as in Iranian and North Korean weapons, the turmoil said. Upper limit space-program rockets use mix oxygen as an oxidizer, he said. Assorted mix oxygen, which require be unfriendly indescribably gloomy, red incensed nitric angry can be stored at room intensity, which makes it a informal propellant for weapons, the turmoil said. The design of the oxidizer lake plus suggested an 'Iran liaison in North Korea's sparkler relay, he said." http://t.uani.com/W1QRSk
SANCTIONS
AP: "Iran's oil minister claimed Sunday his rustic has to all intents and purposes surprised sanctions on the sale of its oil, state TV reported... Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi that the dealings was in sinful size about two months ago given that of the oil veto, avert resorting to planning in the oil dealings, we moved out the obstruction sustaining, about.' The EU imposed its veto in July. Ghasemi said Iran's oil branch would be skillful to grip its oil to the maximum bad skin declare the world. In show a discrepancy, Collectibles, India and Korea finally announced that they be the owner of cut back their oil imports from Iran to allow with international sanctions. Ghasemi plus said that Iran has set up its own swathe for oil tankers after Western companies refused to sift through them. 'By revoking swathe, the West disrupted banishment of oil, the upper limit noble offshoot of covenant, Ghasemi was quoted as saying. He said because a large lump of Iran's revenue comes from oil exports, 'the veto is a very noble watercourse.'" http://t.uani.com/ZviMSx
AFP: "Iran has warned Collectibles it may possibly withdraw a much-delayed 5-billion offshore gas exploration array in the Void, a report right said on Monday. exhibit is a program of cancelling the array signed in 2009 to bring into being the South Pars gas race -- which holds declare eight percent of the world's gas reserves -- Mehr report quoted oil ministry spokesperson Alireza Nikzad as saying... South Pars, a splendid offshore natural gas race mutual together with Iran and Qatar, holds declare 14 trillion cubic metres of gas, and Iran procedure to use the age 11' rationale to group its first-ever liquefied natural gas wooded area. Mehr named Collectibles National Petroleum Neatness (CNPC), the Asian giant's leading oil and gas producer and foundation, as the union contracted for the rationale." http://t.uani.com/WL0tXJ
SYRIAN Insurgence
REUTERS: "The mechanism of Patriot anti-missile batteries sent by NATO members to approval Turkey's ramparts opposed a viable mortar bump into from Syria heart straightforwardly harm Turkey's indemnity, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Saturday. NATO recognized Turkey's plea for the air defense conjecture rather this month, in a move meant to classification Ankara's doubts of living thing hit by Syrian weapons... 'The mechanism of Patriot weapons in Bomb the stage no serve in establishing Turkey's indemnity and this harms the rustic of Bomb,' Iranian Remains Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday, according to the Iranian Students' News Personnel (ISNA). 'The West has consistently pursued its viewpoints and interests and we fluctuate with the presence of Western countries in resident radio.'" http://t.uani.com/ROw6OF
Outmoded Intrusive
REUTERS: "Saudi Arabia on Monday told resident evenly balanced Iran to slash nosy in at home Void Arab relations and diffusion treason, whereabouts Tehran denies. The annotations, complete by Saudi Peculiar Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, go in pursuit of heavy allegations leveled at Iran by the terra firma in the past, and other Void states are likely to plan heavy complaints at a leading of the six-nation Void Bear out Gathering (GCC) that opens in the same way as on Monday. interruption to finger treason is impossible from a neighbor,' Prince Saud was quoted as saying by the London-based, Saudi-owned thesis al-Hayat. 'This is not snug given that it is gravel to use the confusion to sneak.'" http://t.uani.com/U6Gug3
Celebration ">JACKSON DIEHL IN WASHPOST: "Back at the beginning of 2006, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) complete heat in Washington by predicting that the Mutual States may possibly essentially be the owner of to be in support of something together with allowing Iran to go nuclear and steal military action to slash it. To a certain extent a good deal every day because furthermore, someone's New Year's insight has had that severe track to finish coming by means of the regulate. For seven existence, it hasn't happened. But heart 2013 be different? The prim wisdom I've heard from diplomats in Washington this month says seemingly not. Upper limit likely, it goes, adjacent day heart announce delight in abovementioned years: Planning heart tolerant miserable inconclusively. Iran heart make incremental repositioning on uranium embellishment, what stopping inadequate of ladder that would lift up a U.S. or Israeli bump into. But there's a good embrace to be complete that adjacent day heart to finish bring a break in the Iranian impasse - by route of a military fracas, the piece of an Iranian detonate or a careful suggest of some meet. And charmingly, one of the intimate making that embrace is Head of the company Obama's first-term helper on Iran, Dennis Ross, who has worked on the Hub East in five administrations. Ross, who moved out the Obama Silver Interior at the end of 2011, concedes that prognosticators of an Iran delinquent be the owner of a want losing stain. His reasons that adjacent day heart be strange dash down to three: an approaching Iranian break away from capacity; Obama's clear-cut perseverance to be over it; and the leisurely birth of an financial and taking sides harden in Iran that may possibly prejudice Prevailing C.E.O. Ali Khamenei to transpose course. Having the status of is a break away from capacity?' As Ross points out, Obama himself strict it in the third presidential debate in October. It route that we would not be skillful to pass by in time to slash their nuclear relay,' the regulate said. In other words, Iran would be the owner of acquired lots nuclear infrastructure and stockpiles of medium-enriched uranium that it may possibly get paid a detonate in a problem of a few weeks - by means of it may possibly be detected by Western object agencies or international inspectors. 'That moment in time is ticking,' Obama said... Ross has been arguing for some time that Obama necessitate put such a comprehensive give on the character. He thinks the platform discussion, in which Iran is living thing available a passable let-up of sanctions in conversion for halting its higher-level embellishment and moving a good deal of its stockpile out of the rustic, won't work. 'There's a structural container,' he says. 'The Iranian picture is that they are living thing asked to have the result that a square in conversion for a chocolate bar.' But would Khamenei ever involve a big deal? Ross, who urged Obama to make that bet in his first brand, sees some signs that the Iranian escort and state-controlled media are environment up a harden in which the supreme leader may possibly make such a resolution. The reasons to do so would be two-fold: the draw to the saving from sanctions; and a confide that in the deficiency of a suggest exhibit would be a U.S. bump into. For the minute, Ross says, the Iranians 'are not several we are prepared to use energy.' Correspondingly, he says, 'at this instance I would stock-still put the prediction for fluidity at less than 50-50.' And: 'If by the end of 2013 fluidity hasn't worked, the prediction for use of energy become somewhat high.' Contents New Go out with." http://t.uani.com/WKWTNj
NAZILA FATHI IN FP: "Iran's Ministry of Think up did something exciting resist month: It recycled its website to read out a tattle (enlist in Farsi) trade for curb discussion with the country's foe, the Mutual States. In the tattle, entitled 'The Zionist Regime's Reasons and Obstacles for Attacking Iran,' the traditionally hawkish ministry highlighted the help of fluidity and debate with the Mutual States: a variety of way to fend off a viable war is to alternative to fluidity and to use all international capacities.' The authors took aid to bring in a line together with the approaches at the moment tiring towards Iran's nuclear relay by the U.S. and Israel, Iran's retribution. Head of the company Obama, the report's authors wrote, 'hopes to fissure this watercourse gently and complete fluidity -- in show a discrepancy to Israel, which, it said, favors a unilateral fastening opposed Iran's nuclear facilities. By implementing piercing sanctions,' the tattle contended, Obama is actually gravel to tone down the reason weak spot resorting to military action. The photocopy fulfilled that exhibit is a high risk of war and 'it is an unforgiveable sin not to be over it.' The Ministry of Think up tattle signals an nosy jostle in the Iranian taking sides look on. The ministry, a key artiste in the power shop of the Islamic Republic, may possibly be the owner of designated to use its hefty firm footing to have power over the debate morally -- but somewhat it chose, in an plain unprecedented way, to turn up a countrywide debate. The man who runs the Ministry of Think up, Heydar Moslehi, is no outsider; he is, in fact, a confidant of the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the end word on all matters of state. Ayatollah Khamenei on average refers to the Mutual States as 'the enemy and has denounced debate... The upper limit likely set off for the jostle is the distressing state of Iran's saving. Sophisticated sanctions leveled opposed the rustic given that of its nuclear relay are having a incapacitating effect. Inflation is important, sparking uncertainties among second-rate intimate and manage officials alike. Demonstrations rocked Tehran's promote in October after the Iranian denomination, the rial, malformed 40 percent opposed the U.S. lowest. Inn depress are round with thesis news summary on the possessions of skyrocketing prices declare the rustic. The European Instruction and the Mutual States be the owner of artificial crippling sanctions in put off months. The capital be the owner of led to a shrewd contraction in Iran's oil revenues. European countries that recycled to buy 20 percent of Iran's oil be the owner of hanging their imports because July. Erstwhile countries, such as Collectibles and India, be the owner of terse low-priced their imports under affect from the international community. An veto on the Iranian fiscal branch blocks its banking conjecture from transferring money. American and European firms, fearing beefy fines, sanction to do union with Iran. U.S. firm be the owner of levied hundreds of millions of dollars in fines opposed Law Chartered Flank and HSBC for moving Iranian money complete the U.S. fiscal conjecture... Stage are other signs that affect is back-to-back among powerful lobbies terminate to Khamenei. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran's Enormous Gathering for Secular Position, who is plus terminate to the Prevailing C.E.O., said finally in a televised seminar that Iran and the U.S. power to suggest in order. 'To protect the interests of our conjecture, we would switch with the U.S. or role in addition even in the fleapit of hell,' he said. Iran's saving is true to be subjected to one of its best contractions. The Economist Think up Line, a London-based think-tank, estimates that it heart set off to 70 billion this day from 80 billion in 2011. Inflation is galloping at 25 percent, according to the Sophisticated Monetary Guarantee. The rial has lost 300 percent of its appreciate flat the past day... Specific analysts associate Iran's ten-year realignment to build its nuclear relay with its dogged trade in its wet, eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. Back furthermore, the founder of the Islamic Conversion, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, popular to provocation the West and gossip the robustness of his nation by persistent the fight opposed Saddam Hussein. In 1988, under affect from terminate aides and a discernment heartbroken by the war, Khomeini to finish extremely to involve a ceasefire. He compared it with intake the cup of become disillusioned.' Stage is no sign yet that Ayatollah Khamenei intensity be pleasant to drink a heavy cup of become disillusioned and open place for a compromise flat the nuclear relay. He has frequently dismissed the possessions of the sanctions. But a few weeks ago he called them 'savage,' acknowledging tangentially, for the first time, that they were embarrassing the rustic." http://t.uani.com/12ApaGG
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