News Archive - 21 June 2013

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has advised reformists to be cautious and rational in making demands on president-elect Hassan Rouhani.During a meeting with a group of student activists in Tehran, Khatami called on the reformists to appreciate the achievement represented by Rouhani’s election. The former president also...

Despite Hassan Rohani’s impressive revolutionary pedigree, it is his quarter-century of involvement with Iran’s nuclear program that will most interest the US and Israel.

>ST PETERSBURG, Russia/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned the West on Friday against arming Syrian rebel forces, which he said included "terrorist" groups, and warned that a swift exit by President Bashar al-Assad risked creating a dangerous power vacuum. "If the United States ... recognizes one of the...

>"States who provide arms have responsibilities in terms of the eventual use of those arms to commit ... war crimes or crimes against humanity," said Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs a U.N. commission of inquiry on rights violations in Syria."Those arms will contribute to the escalation of war crimes," he...

>France, which has actively supported the rebels in its former colony, has not yet chosen to arm Assad's foes, but has been channeling non-lethal equipment as well as medical aid through the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations, a non-governmental association based in Paris.The foreign ministry said the 16...

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Moderate candidate secures surprise victory in race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with just over 50% of the vote Iran was on the brink of an extraordinary political transformation on Saturday night after the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani sensationally secured enough votes to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani's victory delighted reformers who...

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>* Target of 3.4 mln by end year "doable"* New oilfields due on stream include Shell's Majnoon* 2014 goal of 4.5 mln bpd seen as unachievableBy Peg Mackey and Alex LawlerLONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - Iraq's oil output target for 2013 is still within reach, even with flows...

>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims from Iraq and beyond will take up arms against Sunni al Qaeda "savages" in Syria if fellow Shi'ites or their shrines come under attack again, a powerful minister in Iraq's Shi'ite-led government said. It would be impossible to "sit idle while the Shi'ites...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president-elect believes it's possible to strike a deal that would allow the country to keep enriching uranium while assuring the West it will not produce a nuclear weapon.        

>* Iran imports jump in final month before U.S. waiver renewed* Iran crude imports up 6.4 pct in May from year ago* Jan-May Iran crude imports up 10 pct from same period 2012BEIJING, June 21 (Reuters) - China's average daily crude imports from Iran jumped nearly 50 percent...

>* Brent falls $3.97 on Thursday, biggest daily drop since November* Dollar the destination in mass migration from emerging world* Iraq and Lebanon alarmed at spreading Syria warBy Manash GoswamiSINGAPORE, June 21 (Reuters) - Brent futures held above $102 a barrel on Friday as the steep fall in the...

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>IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - The villages that dot the valleys and terraced hills of Syria's northwest used to epitomize the country's diversity. Each one was dominated by a different religion or sect. The settlements coexisted - sometimes peacefully, sometimes less so - for centuries, a patchwork of distinct but...