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Monthly Archives: May 2018

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 … …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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