*** IRAN DAILY
-- Matter of urgency in Vienna talks: Analyzing Western strategy
The U.S. Secretary of State has said that the time to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is very very very short, and the U.S. national security adviser has expressed doubts that the U.S. will return to the JCPOA in accordance with the 2015 agreement within a few weeks.
-- Palestinians: End Israeli settler ‘terrorism’ or expect new intifada
The Palestinian Authority urged the international community to intervene to protect Palestinians in the face of increasing settler violence that has left hundreds injured in the West Bank in recent days.
The Palestinian Authority said Israel must be held to account for a surge in what it called terrorist attacks by settlers against defenseless Palestinians.
-- South African anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa›s struggle against white minority rule, died on Sunday at the age of 90, the presidency said.
*** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Growing Birth Pangs of New Intifada
The occupying regime of Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate the Zionist regime’s hold on the Syrian territory.
-- Yemen Announces Full Liberation of Jawf Province
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree on Sunday announced the full liberation of the northern Jawf province from the occupation of Saudi-backed militants and mercenaries.
-- Anti-Apartheid Icon Desmond Tutu Passes Away
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid and a supporter of Palestinian rights, died Sunday at 90.
Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down apartheid — South Africa’s brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that only ended in 1994.
*** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Artificial Deadlines Hamper Progress at Vienna Talks
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put the Islamic Republic of Iran’s GDP at 1 trillion dollars in the year 2021. According to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report released in October 2021, Iran is even ranked higher than regional countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey as two heavyweight economies, which are members of the G-20 group.
-- Bank loans to economic sectors increase over 59%
Iranian banking system has paid 17.274 quadrillion rials (over $58.1 billion) of facilities to domestic economic sectors in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21), registering a 59.2-percent rise from the same period in the previous year, IRNA reported.
-- Israel, some Arab states hate democratic forces in West Asia, British professor says
A London-based professor of binary economics says that Israel and the Persian Gulf Arab states share a hatred of democratic forces in the region. “Israel and the Persian Gulf Arab states are deeply united in one thing - their hatred, and fear, of democratic forces in West Asia,” Rodney Shakespeare tells the Tehran Times.
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