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New Rocket Attack Targeting Iraq Base Housing US Troops Will Deepen Concerns

AFP -Two rockets were fired at a military base near Baghdad airport housing US troops, the 10th such attack since late October, the Iraqi army said on Thursday. There were no casualties in the overnight attack, which follows one on the same base on Monday which wounded six members of Iraq’s elite US-trained counterterrorism force, two of them critically, the …

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Swiss Humanitarian Channel To Iran Seen Within Months – Swiss, U.S. Officials

Reuters – A humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran could be up and running within months, senior Swiss and U.S. officials told Reuters, helping supply Swiss goods to the struggling population without tripping over U.S. sanctions Food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are exempt from sanctions that Washington reimposed last year after U.S. President Donald Trump walked …

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Foreign Investment In Iran More Than Halved Since US Sanctions

Radiofarda – A total of $784.6 million foreign finance has been directly invested in 55 projects in Iran in the past seven months, the Islamic Republic Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT) says in a new report. In the same period in 2017, when Washington had not yet withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran’s …

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Rouhani Says Iran Will Bypass U.S. Sanctions Or Overcome Them Through Talks

Reuters -Iran will overcome U.S. sanctions by either bypassing them or through negotiations, and it will not cross its red lines in any talks with arch-adversary Washington, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. Tensions have soared between Tehran and Washington since last year, when President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with six powers …

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Iran Is Among One Of the Top Jailers Of Journalists In The World – CPJ

Radiofarda – Iran ranks just below China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Eritrea, and Vietnam, at the top of the list of the countries that keep journalists behind bars, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) disclosed on Tuesday, December 10. For the fourth consecutive year, at least 250 journalists are kept in jails across the world, CPJ says in …

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