Tag: Iran
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Trump’s travel ban will breed more terrorism, says Iran
Iran on Tuesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of fanning the flames of terrorism with his travel ban on the citizens of six predominately Muslim countries, one of which is Iran. The ban is “the biggest gift for extremist groups,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in Berlin after meeting his German counterpart Sigmar…
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Hassan Rouhani re-elected President of Iran
Iranians have re-elected President Hassan Rouhani. He led with 58.6 percent of the vote, compared with 39.8 percent for his main challenger, hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi, according to near-complete results broadcast on Saturday. Although the powers of the elected president are limited by those of unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who outranks him, the…
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Iran holds military exercise after new U.S. sanctions
Iran on Saturday held a military exercise and testing rockets, a day after the United States imposed fresh sanctions on Tehran in response to a ballistic missile test last weekend. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard emphasised that the military exercise was a response to “threats and sanctions” by Washington. On Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department added 13…
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Iran denies American wrestlers visas for World Cup event
Iran has banned American wrestlers from competing in a World Cup competition by denying them visas in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order from last week on immigration, the IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The report quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying the case was looked into by a special…
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Oil rises up to $57.01 on threat of U.S. issuing new Iran sanctions
Oil prices was up on Friday on news that U.S. President Donald Trump could be set to impose new sanctions on multiple Iranian entities, raising geopolitical tensions between the two nations. Comments by Russian energy minister Alexander Novak that oil producers had cut their output in accordance with a pact agreed in December also helped…
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Iran rules out review of nuclear deal despite U.S. concerns
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran will not accept a review of its international nuclear deal, local media reported on Wednesday. The international nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), resolved Tehran’s decade-long controversial nuclear issue. “Renegotiation of the deal is totally meaningless, and a return to the past is…
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Former Iranian president Rafsanjani dies aged 82
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday in Tehran at the age of 82, Iranian state media reports said. Rafsanjani had been admitted to hospital in the Iranian capital during the morning with cardiac arrhythmia. The cleric was one of the architects of the Islamic Revolution that deposed the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,…