Relations between China and Canada suffered a major blow after Ottawa detained Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on request of authorities in the US, where she is accused of fraudulent activities to bypass sanctions against Iran. Speaking to Sputnik, Canadian...
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TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - An Israeli military delegation will state at the upcoming consultations in Moscow that the Jewish state has a "right and obligation" to oppose the presence of Iranian forces and Hezbollah in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Tuesday at a local ceremony that even enemies of the Islamic Republic acknowledge that the sanctions against Iran were inefficient.
Iran today called France's Yellow Jacket Protests an Islamic Awakening.The head of the Islamic Republic Judiciary has said on Monday that protests in France are part of the “Islamic awakening” and a development foreseen by Iran’s Supreme...
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Tensions remain high over the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for alleged Iran sanction violations, but Canada just offered a tiny olive branch. A British Columbia Supreme Court justice has granted Meng bail after her attorney and family made a...
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So much happened in 2018 that it might have escaped your notice that this is also the year that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, became an unlikely Twitter sensation—unlikely because, thanks to bans he helped institute, Iranians...
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Hashem Shakeri documents the loss of the Hamoun Wetlands in Sistan and Baluchestan Province*.
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A senior Iranian military commander has confirmed that Tehran recently carried out a ballistic missile test, to the anger of the United States, the Fars news agency said on Tuesday.
The Revolutionary Guards official's comment came after U.S....
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Ms. Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s secretive founder, Ren Zhengfei, had stressed transparency at the company. She is now accused of hiding Huawei’s dealings in Iran.
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The United States earlier accused Iran of launching a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads, despite the fact that the UN Security Council's resolutions and the Iran nuclear deal ban Tehran from any activities related...
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The European Union's foreign policy chief said Monday a system to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran and circumvent U.S. sanctions could be in place by year's end.
The European Union wants the so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to help...
The families of seven men detained in Iran have published an open letter asking for "urgent action" in order to ensure their safe return to the U.S.
According to Israeli cybersecurity experts, Iran has been spreading fake news and propaganda on the Internet for several years through at least 70 websites against 15 countries, including Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Middle...
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Iran's foreign ministry stressed that the country would not create missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads after the US and its French and British allies accused Tehran of test-launching a 'nuclear-capable' medium-range ballistic missile last...
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is urging the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) to support the ailing national currency amid concerns a weaker rial could negatively affect the well-being of Iranian citizens.
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A carrier strike group led by the Nimitz-class supercarrier USS John C. Stennis has arrived in the Middle East, ending an eight month period without a US carrier based in the region, the US...
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Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused "foreign-backed terrorists" of responsibility for Thursday's car bombing attack in the strategic Iranian port city of Chabahar, which left four dead and over 40 injured.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is warning the West that targeting his country with sanctions and destroying the economy will have disastrous consequences for Europe, unleashing a "deluge" of drugs, refugees, and the proliferation of terrorist...
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver last Saturday and reportedly charged with fraud for telling UK-based banking company HSBC that the Chinese tech giant was in full compliance with US sanctions against Iran while...
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This story is being published by POLITICO as part of a content partnership with the South China Morning Post. It originally appeared on scmp.com on Dec. 7, 2018.Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant...
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