BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said he hopes to end the country’s $4 billion reliance on Iranian gas by 2028, in an effort to diversify the major oil-producer’s economy. Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and…
Category: 1. Iran
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Iran says refugees can return home if they have not committed ‘crimes’
“Conditions for the entry of Iranian refugees have been prepared … provided they have not committed other criminal acts,” Hossein Nooshabadi, the ministry’s director general for parliamentary and legal affairs, told the semi-official ILNA…
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UN Says Gaza Strip Reconstruction To Cost $70bln
The reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will require as much as $70 bln, Jaco Cilliers, the Special Representative of the Administrator for the Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People, has stated at a briefing.
“The RDNA [Rapid Damage…
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Members of B-2 bomber team recall strikes on Iranian nuclear sites: “The performance was perfect.”
President Trump on Monday announced the Pentagon is ordering 28 new B-2 Spirit stealth bombers — the military jet that has for decades been the tip of the spear of America’s air defense and global operations, most recently against Iran’s…
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Prominent Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvaei dies
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The prominent and highly controversial Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai has died at the age of 84 in a hospital in the capital Tehran.
His wife, Marzieh Vafamehr, confirmed the related media reports on her Instagram account on…
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Family of UK couple detained in Iran may seek Trump’s aid – Telegraph
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in January while traveling through Iran on an around-the-world motorcycle tour.
Iranian authorities accused them of espionage — charges their relatives have forefully denied.
The pair have been…
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Russia says Iran erred by agreeing to nuclear deal sanctions ‘trap’
“To be honest, we were surprised. But if our Iranian partners accepted this formulation – which, frankly, was a legal trap – we had no grounds to object,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
Last month, UN sanctions were reimposed on Iran after…
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Defy or engage? Trump’s call for dialogue divides Iran’s political landscape – AL-Monitor
Defy or engage? Trump’s call for dialogue divides Iran’s political landscape AL-Monitor
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Nasser Taghvai, Iranian director who refused to bow to censors, dies at 84
Born in 1941 in Abadan, in Iran’s southern oil fields, Taghvai emerged as a defining voice of the Iranian New Wave that reshaped the nation’s cinema in the 1960s and ’70s.
His early feature Tranquility in the Presence of Others (1970) was…
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Thai weed laws under review once again
Cannabis continues to occupy an ambiguous place in Thailand today. PATTAYA, Thailand – Thailand’s roller-coaster cannabis rules are in flux again after a promise by the Ministry of Public Health to undertaker a…
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