Iran will respond to the European Union's "final" text by midnight Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, urging the United States to show flexibility in solving the three remaining issues to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal.
"iran nuclear deal"I don't want to reach an agreement that doesn't come through on the spot after 40 days, two months or three months….We told them our red lines must be respected," he said.
". Like Washington, we have our own plan B if talks fail," he said. discussions among Iran and world powers.US and Iranian officials in Vienna. According to the EU's recommendations, Washington is willing to quickly negotiate a deal to restore the pact.,, Iranian officials said last week they would submit their "additional views and considerations" to the EU.
Iranian hardliners call for Vice President's impeachment Iran's ultraconservatives are trying to unseat Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as he continues to feel vulnerable and threatened by the government's economic failures. The economic failings of President Ebrahim Raisi's government have become clear to most Iranians, including ultraconservatives or hardliners who gave him full support a year ago when he took office. Mokhber is the economic czar of Raisi, who can easily be blamed for an inflation rate of 54% and for aggravating poverty with its political implications.
The reformist daily Arman Meli published a report on Saturday that the call for Mokhber's impeachment was a message that the conservative camp eventually sent to Raisi.
According to the newspaper, this group of Iranian conservatives is determined to show that the Raisi government is inefficient.The newspaper wrote that some Iranian conservatives wanted a hard-line vice president last year, but Raisi chose to work with Mokhber, who was a key official in business conglomerates operating under Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
A year after his appointment as vice president, it is still unclear whether it was Raisi who asked Mokhber to join his cabinet, or Khamenei, who knew Raisi had no leadership experience and wanted Mokhber to make amends. the shortcomings of the President. The report mentioned that some hardliners, such as Javad Karimi Qoddousi, said they wanted to tell Raisi that Mokhber lacks the necessary skills to fill the post and that remaining in the post would mean further losses for the government .
They also cited the discord between Mokhber and the other members of Raisi's economic team, particularly Vice President for Economic Affairs Mohsen Rezaei, as another reason for his sacking. News website Iran International said a major blunder by Mokber last week sparked much public ridicule.A look-alike of American actor Johnny Depp appeared at a religious mourning ceremony, prompting Mokhber to tweet praising Depp for attending a Shia religious event.
Reminded by social media users and politicians that the person only looked like the American actor, Mokhber's office claimed his tweet was somehow fabricated. All of this could be made even more significant by a report in the reformist newspaper Shargh that went viral on Saturday.
The report of its editor-in-chief, Ahmad Gholami, said that "Raisi's government is a continuation of the government of populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and will inevitably sink into the same quagmire that Ahmadinejad's government is facing." Gholami argued, that both Ahmadinejad and Raisi began their tenures with promises to change everything, but Ahmadinejad gradually fizzled out as economic conditions worsened with UN sanctions in the early 2010s.
He expected the Raisi government to suffer the same fate. 
However, to be fair and certain, Gholami noted that Raisi is bearing a heavier burden from all sorts of economic woes that have accumulated during the tenure of his predecessors, noting that it is highly unlikely that he will be in the will be able to find a way out, because all roads inevitably lead to the same swamp.
The situation in Iran deteriorated rapidly when the United States pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed crippling sanctions on the regime. The website noted that the same thing happened when the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iran for running a dangerous nuclear program.However, the Raisi government has been accused of a high degree of inefficiency, a lack of planning and highly questionable appointments.
Iran denies involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie An Iranian government official Monday denied that Tehran was involved in the attack on author Salman Rushdie, in comments that were the country's first public comments on the attack. The comments from Nasser Kanaani, spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, come two days after the attack on Rushdie in New York. However, Iran has denied conducting other foreign operations against dissidents in the years following the country's 1979 revolution, although Western governments and prosecutors have attributed such attacks to Tehran.
" Kanaani said."No one has the right to accuse Iran of this. Rushdie, 75, was stabbed to death on Friday while attending an event in western New York.
He suffered liver damage and severed nerves in his arm and eye, his agent said. Her attacker, Hadi Matar, 24, has pleaded not guilty through his attorney.The award-winning author has faced death threats for The Satanic Verses for more than 30 years.
The late Iranian supreme leader Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, calling for his death. An Iranian foundation had offered a reward of more than $3 million for the author. Kanaani added that Iran "had no information other than that reported by the US media.
Iran Puts on Trial Reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh
The 65-year-old, who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency last year as a reformer and "political prisoner for seven years," was put on trial in Tehran on Saturday, news agency Mizan Online said. .
Tajzadeh was Deputy Interior Minister during the 1997-2005 tenure of former reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
He was arrested in 2009 during protests against the re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which was contested by an opposition backing unsuccessful reformist candidates Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi.Tajzadeh was convicted the following year of threatening national security and propaganda against the state, and was released in 2016 after serving his sentence. Since his release, Tajzadeh has repeatedly urged the authorities to release Mousavi and Karoubi, who have been under house arrest for more than a decade over the protests.
He submitted his candidacy in May 2021 after a long campaign for "structural and democratic changes" in Iran. He was arrested again at his home on July 8 this year and also faces charges of "publishing lies to disturb public opinion," the Mehr news agency reported. . His lawyer, Houshang Pourbabai, told the reformist newspaper Etemad that "Three days ago, with the permission of the court, I went to Evin prison to meet my client."
"My client refused to see me because he couldn't speak to me face to face," he said, adding that Tajzadeh had also announced that he "would not appear in court."
Etemad quoted Tajzadeh's wife as saying that the activist "was forced to appear in court against his will". "Sunak calls for Iranian Revolutionary Guards to be classified as terrorists after Rushdie attack Rishi Sunak, one of two candidates to become Britain's next prime minister, said Friday's attack on author Salman Rushdie should serve as a wake-up call the West on Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Indian-born author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him for his novel The Satanic Verses, was shot onstage at a conference in upstate New York and upper body stabbed.
After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and was unable to speak until Friday night. There was no official response from the Iranian government to the attack on Rushdie, but several hardline Iranian newspapers praised his attacker. "Salman Rushdie's brutal stabbing should be a wake-up call for the West, and Iran's response to the attack strengthens the case for a ban on the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps), , according to the newspaper.
The IRGC controls Iran's military and intelligence forces.
The JCPOA, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is the 2015 agreement under which Iran restricted its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions ., the EU and the UN "The situation in Iran is extremely serious and in the face of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, we cannot take our eyes off other places," Sunak Truss said at the British leadership contest.
Yemeni government criticizes Iran's role in undermining ceasefire The legitimate Yemeni government has criticized Tehran's role in undermining the national ceasefire after a Houthi cell was arrested for arms smuggling from Iran. He condemned Tehran for its support of the Houthi militias and said arms smuggling undermined the UN-sponsored ceasefire, which has been extended twice since it came into effect in April. Information Minister Muammar al-Eyrani announced that a Houthi cell has confessed to smuggling arms from Iran to the port of Hodeidah in Yemen.
The cell of four was blown up by Joint Forces on the west coast.
The smuggling is being monitored by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, those arrested revealed.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Eryani said the confessions "confirm that Iran continues to arm the Houthis in flagrant violation and disregard for international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions."
The smuggling confirms "Iran's role in undermining peace and its use of militias as a vehicle to kill Yemenis, destabilize Yemen, sow chaos and terrorism in the region and threaten international interests," he added .
He called on the international community, the UN and the permanent members of the Security Council to fulfill their legal obligations and unequivocally condemn the Iranian regime's destabilizing policies. "You must apply real pressure to end Iran's interference in Yemeni affairs and its arms smuggling to Houthi terrorists," he demanded.Iranian media hail attack by Salman Rushdie Conservative Iranian media on Saturday praised the assailant who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie in New York on Friday. Iran has yet to officially comment on the incident, but the daily Kayhan, whose editor-in-chief will be appointed by the supreme leader, offered "a thousand greetings" to the brave man who "attacked the evil renegade Salman Rushdie." " in New York."
"You must kiss the hand of the man who wounded the enemy of God," he added in The accused attacker, Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has himself pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder and assault in court on Saturday.Rushdie, 75, was about to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institution in west New York when police said Matar came onstage and stabbed the Indian-born writer who wrote his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses" prompted Iran to press for his assassination.
Rushdie, who was born to a Kashmiri Muslim family in Bombay, now Mumbai, before moving to Britain, has long faced death threats for "The Satanic Verses", what some Muslims are preserved believe to contain blasphemous passages. The book was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations.
In 1989, Khomeini, Iran's supreme leader at the time, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that Muslims Hitoshi Igarashi, who was japanis, was ordered to kill the author and everyone involved in the publication of the book for blasphemy che translator of the novel, murdered and stabbed to death in an unsolved case in 1991.Iranian organizations, some linked to the government, have collected a million-dollar reward for Rushdie's murder. Khomeini's successor as supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said in 2019 the fatwa was "irrevocable". El Asr-e Iran on Saturday quoted Khamenei as saying that the "arrow" once fired by Khomeini "will one day hit its target", i.e. Rushdie.
The Vatan-e Emrooz newspaper's main headline was 'Knife in the throat of Salma Rushdie' and Khorasan News headlined 'The Devil Goes to Hell'.
Activists Accuse Iran of Responsibility for Rushdie Attack
Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday.
While the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" has for some time not been part of daily discourse in Iran, the clerical leadership under his successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also did nothing to indicate it no longer stood and on occasions underlined the decree was still valid
The multiple stabbing of Rushdie at an event in New York comes at an intensely sensitive time for Iran, as it considers an offer by world powers to revive the 2015 deal on its nuclear program which would ease sanctions that have battered the economy.
During a period of relative thaw between Tehran and the West under former president Mohammad Khatami, ex-foreign minister Kamal Kharazi had in 1998 pledged that Iran would not take steps to endanger the life of Rushdie, who for years was in hiding
But an answer posted to a question on Khamenei's website Khamenei.ir in February 2017 said that the fatwa was still valid. "Answer: The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued," it said.
The @khamenei_ir Twitter account, which repeats Khamenei's views and activists have repeatedly said should be suspended, in 2019 posted that the fatwa was "solid and irrevocable".
Activists also insist that a bounty of over 3 million dollars for Rushdie's life offered by Iran's 15 Khordad Foundation remains on offer
“Whether today's assassination attempt was ordered directly by Tehran or not, it is almost certainly the result of 30 years of the regime's incitement to violence against this celebrated author," said the Washington-based National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI).
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an opposition group outlawed in Iran, said that the attack had taken place at the "instigation" of Khomeini's fatwa, AFP reported.
“Ali Khamenei and other leaders of the clerical regime had always vowed to implement this anti-Islamic fatwa in the past 34 years," it said in a statement.
New York state police identified the suspected attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, adding the motive for the stabbing remains unclear. He was detained in the immediate aftermath.
Commentators pointed to a Facebook account belonging to a man named Hadi Matar littered with images of the Iranian leadership which was deactivated in the hours after the attack. There was no immediate confirmation it belonged to the attacker.
The Islamic republic has a record throughout its history of seeking to eliminate opponents outside its borders and is now accused also of abducting foreign-based dissidents and hauling them back to Iran for trial and possible execution.
Alinejad, who was previously the target of a plot to abduct her from New York by speedboat back to Iran via Venezuela, is now in a safe house after a man with a AK-47 was found outside her residence.
"There's been a fatwa on Salman Rushdie from Khomeini since 1989 and the Islamic Republic of Iran never backed off the fatwa. @khamenei_ir repeated it on Twitter as well. Now Islamic Republic promoters are praising the assassination and threaten me with the same fate as Salman Rushdie," said Alinejad.
In its news report about the attack, the official IRNA news agency described Rushdie as the "apostate author" of "The Satanic Verses" and recalled the fatwa.
The daily Kayhan, whose editor is appointed by Khamenei, hailed the attacker as "this courageous and duty-conscious man... who tore the neck of the enemy of God with a knife."
Iran Willing to Accept EU Proposal If It Provides Tehran with 'Guarantees'
Iran is ready to accept the EU proposal if it offers Tehran "guarantees" for an unidentified Iranian diplomat. Iran is seeking assurances that no future US president will back down from the deal, as former President Donald Trump did in 2018, and has reinstated tough US sanctions on Iran.
Western diplomats noted that US President Joe Biden may not be able to make such assurances because the nuclear deal is only a political agreement and not a legally binding treaty.
On Friday, Kazem Seddiqi said in his prayer sermon that Tehran is insisting on verifiable assurances that US sanctions would be lifted after the deal was revived.
"We insist on obtaining the necessary guarantees, lifting of sanctions and verification, and when this is achieved, our negotiating team will tell the people that the sanctions have been lifted thanks to their resistance and power," Seddiqi said meanwhile Friday. Prayers according to state television.
On Monday, the European Union said it had presented a "final" text after four days of indirect talks between US and Iranian officials in Vienna. A senior EU official said no further changes could be made to the text, which has been under negotiation for 15 months, adding that he expects a final decision from the parties within "very, very few weeks".
Iranian officials said they would submit their "additional views and considerations" to the Union, which is coordinating talks following consultations in Tehran.
For its part, the US government confirmed Thursday night that it stands ready to "immediately finalize and implement" the deal on the Tehran nuclear deal if Iran abandons its additional demands that go beyond the deal signed in 2015, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). US State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel briefed reporters in Washington on the latest developments related to the Vienna talks.Patel noted that the U.S. government, along with "our allies and partners alike, is preparing for mutual return and non-return scenarios to fully implement the JCPOA." A revival of the 2015 accord appeared imminent in March, but 11-month Iran-US proxy talks in Vienna stalled because Tehran insisted Washington remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US list of foreign terrorist organizations.
Under the 2015 deal, Iran limited its uranium enrichment program, which could be a route to nuclear weapons, in exchange for sanctions lifting. Tehran insists it only wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
New York man is accused of having a gun outside the home of an Iranian journalist on Friday.Defendant Khalid Mehdiyev spent two days outside journalist Masih Alinejad's Brooklyn home in late July and once attempted to open the door, an FBI agent wrote in a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan.
A lawyer for Mehdiyev declined to comment.
Alinejad has criticized Iran's veil laws and shared videos of women breaking the law to her millions of followers on social media. Last year he was the target of what US prosecutors called a Tehran-backed kidnapping Mehdiyev was charged Thursday with possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number. Prosecutors are also looking for Mehdiyev to hand over the gun and ammunition.Last year, prosecutors accused four Iranians who were allegedly secret agents of conspiring to kidnap Alinejad. Tehran has dismissed allegations of government involvement as "baseless". According to a criminal complaint, after Mehdiyev was arrested for running a stop sign, he told investigators the AK-47 was his and that he was "looking for someone" in Brooklyn.
Mehdiyev then asked for a lawyer and stopped answering questions, the complaint said. Iran wants 3 more Khayyam satellites Iran plans to order three more versions of a satellite launched by Russia this week, the Tehran government spokesman said on Friday.The Khayyam entered orbit on Tuesday, prompting US allegations that it was intended for spying, which Iran denied. "The construction of three more Khayyam satellites with the participation of Iranian scientists is on the government agenda," spokesman Ali Bahadori- Jahromi said on Twitter.
A Soyuz 2.1b rocket launched the satellite from Moscow's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
In response to the launch, Washington said Russia's growing cooperation with Iran should be viewed as a "pervasive threat," but Iran's Space Agency chief Hassan Salarieh said the Khayyam is designed to meet Iran's needs for " Crisis and urban development". Administration, mineral resources, mines, agriculture, etc.
The Khayyam was built by the Russians under Iranian supervision, Salarieh said at a news conference on Wednesday. for several months or longer” to support its war effort before allowing Iran to take control. Iran's space agency stressed on Sunday that it would control the satellite "from day one," in an apparent response to the post The United States has accused Iran of effectively aiding Russia's war against Ukraine and at the same time adopting a "veil of neutrality".
Western governments are also concerned that satellite launch systems contain technology interchangeable with that used in ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, something Iran has always denied wanting to build.
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