Al-Arabia – Saudi Arabia has said it will take all necessary measures to prevent oil supply shortages following the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
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US flag set ablaze as Iran says it has ‘no obligation to honor nuke deal’
Al-Arabia – Iran’s parliament speaker said President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a 2015 international nuclear deal was a violation of an agreement that would isolate the United States, state television reported on Wednesday. “Trump’s abandoning of the nuclear deal was a diplomatic show … Iran has no obligation to honor its commitments under the current situation … …
Read More »Israeli Intel Sources Detect Unusual Iranian Military Activity in Lebanon
VOA – A prominent Iranian-Israeli journalist says Israeli intelligence sources have reported unusual activities by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps forces in Lebanon.
Read More »Iran Faces Banking Turmoil After US Nuclear Deal Exit
VOA —Some Iranians had been cashing in their savings even before U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement he would pull out from the international nuclear deal with Iran, straining a banking system weighed down by bad loans and years of isolation. An official with Iran’s biggest state-owned Melli Bank told Reuters savings had declined by an unspecified amount, although he said …
Read More »US Withdraws from Iran Nuclear Deal; Allies Say It’s Not Dead Yet
VOA —French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday the nuclear deal six world powers reached with Iran nearly three years ago is “not dead,” even after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his country’s withdrawal from the accord. Speaking to RTL radio, Le Drian said French President Emmanuel Macron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani were to speak to each other …
Read More »Mnuchin: US Revoking Boeing, Airbus Licenses to Sell Jets to Iran
VOA – Licenses for Boeing and Airbus to sell passenger jets to Iran will be revoked, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
Read More »Iranian Opposition Leader Under House Arrest Declines “Limited” Lifting of Restrictions
CHRI – Zahra Rahnavard Demands Unconditional Freedom For Herself and Fellow House Arrest Detainees Zahra Rahnavard, an Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since February 2011, has declined an unofficial offer for some of the restrictions on her to be lifted, demanding that she and fellow opposition leaders under house arrest—Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi—be freed …
Read More »“Downtism Café” Launched as Iran’s First Business Staffed by People Living With Disabilities
CHRI – Iran saw the opening of Downtism Café, the country’s first café staffed by people living with disabilities including down syndrome and autism, on May 1, 2018.
Read More »European Envoys Expect Trump to Withdraw From Iran Deal
VOA— European officials are saying they expect President Donald Trump on Tuesday to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 international agreement to restrain Iran’s nuclear weapons development, endangering the accord.
Read More »Netanyahu: Iran Deploying Arms in Syria to Threaten Israel
VOA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Tuesday of deploying “very dangerous weapons” in Syria as part of a campaign to threaten Israel.
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