- Iran and the West : Rohani’s outstretched hand (Economist)
- President Hassan Rouhani on Monday called on regional states including Iran and Armenia to cooperate in fighting terrorism (Iran Daily)
- Iran to Build Hydroelectric Power Plants in Armenia (Fars News)
- Iranian deputy foreign minister said Tehran and the P5+1 group could still reach a final nuclear agreement before the November 24 deadline despite differences on certain issues (Iran Daily)
- Iranian exports to the European Union (EU) witnessed a 77-percent rise in value in August compared with the same month of 2013 (Iran Daily)
- The world renowned Iranian scientist in neurological surgery Professor Majid Samii has garnered the 2014 Golden Neuron Award (Iran Daily)
- Iran gained 23 more medals on the second day of the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday (Iran Daily)
"A SEDUCTIVE idea is gaining ground among the West’s foreign-policy “realists”—with a bit of boldness America and Iran could end their mutually destructive enmity of the past 35 years and, in so doing, take a giant step towards resolving the conflicts that have brought misery to a large part of the Middle East.
Several times Mr Rohani emphasised that, if only a nuclear agreement could be reached, he had “no doubt that the situation between the US and Iran will be completely different”; there were “many potential areas of co-operation in the future”.He also contrasted Iran’s political stability with the chaos in the rest of region. Mr Rohani’s message could not have been clearer: cut us a little slack on the nuclear file and all sorts of other good things will flow from it; we have just two months to seize the chance of a new beginning.
.. meetings between America’s secretary of state, John Kerry, and Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have become almost routine and, according to one Western official, they appear to get on.
Although there seems little chance of Iran abandoning Mr Assad, its diplomats have occasionally let slip that they may not be quite as wedded to him personally as it appears; Iran could thus play a decisive role in ending the civil war in Syria. Similarly, an Iran that no longer encouraged and enabled its proxies in the region (Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza) to provoke and threaten Israel really would be seen by the West to have changed. More plausibly, Iran could extend its existing co-operation in Afghanistan, helping to stabilise the country as NATO forces end their combat mission there."
.. meetings between America’s secretary of state, John Kerry, and Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have become almost routine and, according to one Western official, they appear to get on.
Although there seems little chance of Iran abandoning Mr Assad, its diplomats have occasionally let slip that they may not be quite as wedded to him personally as it appears; Iran could thus play a decisive role in ending the civil war in Syria. Similarly, an Iran that no longer encouraged and enabled its proxies in the region (Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza) to provoke and threaten Israel really would be seen by the West to have changed. More plausibly, Iran could extend its existing co-operation in Afghanistan, helping to stabilise the country as NATO forces end their combat mission there."
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