*** IRAN DAILY
-- Security chief: Iran’s main strategy to render sanctions ineffective
Iran’s top security official said Wednesday the country’s main strategy is to create mechanisms to neutralize the sanctions it is facing in parallel with efforts to get them removed.
-- Iran to UN: US senator ‘inciting terror’
Iran strongly denounced recent comments by an American senator who encouraged Israel to assassinate more Iranian scientists, saying the remarks amount to incitement to terrorism, which is a flagrant violation of international law.
-- Lavrov: Third World War would be nuclear, destructive
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday warned that if a Third World War were to occur, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive.
The comments reported by the RIA news agency came a day after Lavrov told a Geneva disarmament meeting via video link that neighboring Ukraine, against which Russia launched a “military operation” last week, had been seeking nuclear weapons.
*** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Eurozone Inflation Hits Record; Oil at $110
Oil prices are surging again as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues, pushing crude up to $110 a barrel.
Eurozone inflation soared in February to a record high of 5.8 percent, mainly on the back of surging energy prices, the EU’s official statistics agency Eurostat said Wednesday.
-- The Observances of Sha’ban & Its Virtues
Sha’ban is a month of great merits. It is associated with Prophet Muhammad (SAWA). He would fast throughout the month and say: “Sha’ban is my month; whoever fasts a day of this month of mine will surely be admitted into paradise.”
-- Russian Troops Capture Port on Black Sea
Russian forces said they had captured a port on the Black Sea on Wednesday as Russian and Ukrainian troops battled for another city.
The Russian army said it had taken control of Kherson, as its troops advanced and pounded cities across southern and eastern Ukraine, defying sanctions and isolation.
*** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Western Hypocrisy Over Ukraine
After a period of short-lived optimism on the possibility of a deal being made in the Vienna talks, the odds of such a deal again become slim as the West started to put the blame on Iran for the lack of swift conclusion.
-- Gas transmission through West Asia’s biggest network hits new record high
Operating the largest natural gas network in West Asia, National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) has been continuously expanding this network into the country’s most remote areas so that currently over 98 percent of the urban population, as well as 90 percent of the country’s rural population, have access to natural gas through this huge network.
-- Iran’s security chief consults with MPs over Vienna talks
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary Admiral Ali Shamkhani held a meeting with a number of MPs on Wednesday at the SNSC over the ongoing talks in Vienna, according to reports. In the extraordinary meeting the latest developments regarding the lifting of sanctions in the talks were explained.
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