Clear of uruguay at the top of the table. Argentinas victory over chile takes them up to third, with colombia up to fourth, which is the last of The Automatic qualifying places. Ecuador are now fifth, which is the play off position, while chile, the reigning South American champions, drop out of the qualifying places completely after that defeat in argentina. Lets move to asian world cup qualifying where iran have edged closer to a place at next years finals in russia. They beat qatar 1 0 in doha, where mehdi taremi beat the off side trap to score the only goal of the game early in the second half. The result take iran four points clear at the top of group a. A giant step forward but now we still need to be focused on these four games that remain. Because as everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is very tight and it is not over. We need to be fully concentrated to collect the points that we need to qualify
BAGHDAD: Iraq's recently elected parliament met on Sunday for its first session, about three months after early elections in which pro-Iranian groups suffered significant losses.The results sparked street protests from supporters of the political parties which fared poorly in the parliamentary polls, brought forward in response to months-long street protests.