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Al-Arabia – Iran’s parliament has laid out six conditions for Tehran to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with global powers in a letter to President Ebrahim Raisi published on Sunday, the country’s official IRNA news agency reported. The letter, signed by 250 out of 290 parliamentarians, stated that US and European parties should guarantee that they would not exit a …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [Elite capture] is a crucial tool of [China’s] success. The idea is simple enough: by tempting another country’s elite with money, access and favors, you move them to see their interests and China’s interests as intertwined or even the same. [Each] of the individuals we discuss would deny their role in helping China gain access to American capital …

RFL/RE – Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, said on February 19 that the kingdom was looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with Iran despite a “lack of substantive progress” in previous rounds. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Al Saud also voiced hope that there was a serious desire by Iran to …

VOA – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday that “now is the moment of truth” to determine whether Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers can be salvaged, and the Iranian leadership needs to make a choice. Iran’s foreign minister, though, said that it’s up to Western countries to show flexibility and “the ball is now in their court.” Negotiators …

Iran-HRM -Political prisoner Forough Taghipour has been taken to a filthy cell with no access to hygiene or medical care after she contracted the omicron Covid variant in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, in Tehran Province. She suffers from lung disease and asthma and has symptoms of the virus since last week. Alarm is growing over the danger the poor condition …