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Radiofarda – Key oil freight rates from the Middle East to Asia jumped nearly a fifth on Friday, with the global oil shipping market spooked by fresh United States sanctions on units of Chinese giant COSCO for alleged involvement in ferrying crude out of Iran. In what the State Department called “one of the largest sanctions actions the U.S. has …

Radiofarda – The conservative chief of Iran’s Judiciary has been attempting in recent weeks to present himself as the spearhead in fighting financial corruption and injustice in the clergy-dominated country. The mid-ranking cleric Ebrahim Raeesi (Raeisi or Raisi), a member of the “Death Quartet” that issued thousands of death sentences against political prisoners serving their sentences in the late 1980s, …

Radiofarda – Four years ago, on September 24, 2015, an unfortunate event claimed the lives of more than 2,000 Muslims during the annual Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj. During the “deadliest Hajj in history”, people were killed in Mina, a neighbourhood of Mecca, as a result of a stampede. Among the pilgrims was an Iranian diplomat/operative who served for years in …

RFL/RE – Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, has abruptly canceled a scheduled appearance at a Kremlin-backed event in Armenia that is expected to feature Russian leader Vladimir Putin.The Washington Post on September 27 had reported hours earlier that Giuliani, a key figure in a controversy over Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had …

VOA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday continued to chart a collision course with Washington over Iran. Erdogan is categorically ruling out enforcing American sanctions intended to put Iran in an economic straitjacket. “It is impossible for us to cancel relations with Iran with regard to oil and natural gas. We will continue to buy our natural gas …