Tag: Iran
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Despite proposal from Iran, ceasefire negotiations with US are in flux
Iran’s foreign minister continued his shuttle diplomacy, landing in St. Petersburg for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday after a weekend in Pakistan and Oman. ... -
US imposes sanctions on a China-based oil refinery and 40 shippers over Iranian oil
President Donald Trump’s administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. ... -
Iraqi captain keeps sailing amid regional war
Aboard an oil tanker plying the tense waters between the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, Iraqi Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri continues to work in ... -
Hopes rise for renewed talks as US military says Iran blockade is in force
Hopes rose for renewed talks between the United States and Iran yesterday, as the U.S. military said its blockade of Iranian ports was in full effect ... -
US military is poised to blockade Iranian ports, while Tehran threatens ports in the Mideast
The U.S. military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting yesterday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz ... -
Markets surge worldwide as oil plunges toward $90 following ceasefire between US, Israel and Iran
Stock markets are surging worldwide, and oil prices are plunging back toward $90 per barrel after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force ... -
Iran hits Golf states while strikes batter Tehran ahead of Trump speech
Iran hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday while airstrikes battered Tehran — an unrelenting tempo hours after U.S. ... -
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by ... -
A wave of executions is feared in after three young men were hanged last week
A 19-year-old star wrestler and two other young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may ... -
Iran’s secretive top leader vows to keep up attacks in his first statement
Iran’s new supreme leader released his first statement since succeeding his late father, saying yesterday that Iran would keep up its attacks on its Gulf Arab ... -
Iran war becomes a contest of who can take the most pain
The war with Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge ... -
Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei successor as oil prices soar
Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the country’s late supreme leader, the Islamic Republic’s next ruler yesterday, putting a hard-line cleric in charge as the ... -
US and Iran spar over status of Iranian warship sunk by a submarine
The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean last week, with Washington rejecting ... -
Iran launches new attacks, saying US will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking warship, calls for Trump’s blood
Iran launched a new wave of attacks Thursday morning at Israel, American bases and countries around the region, threatening that the United States would “bitterly regret” ... -
A son of late supreme leader is a possible candidate to replace his father as war rages
Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has long been considered a contender to the post of the country›s next paramount ruler — ... -
Where things stand after the US and Israeli strikes on Iran
The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures ... -
Tehran says US-Israeli attacks have killed 555 people so far in Iran
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said yesterday that the U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting Iran has killed at least 555 people so far in the Islamic Republic. ... -
Oil prices rise sharply after attacks in Middle East disrupt global energy supply
Oil prices rose sharply yesterday as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions ... -
World leaders urge return to talks after US and Israeli strikes kill Iranian leader Ali Khamenei
World leaders urged peace and a return to talks as the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran raised concerns about whether the violence could ... -
East Airports closed and thousands of travelers stranded after attack on Iran
The attack on Iran by the United States and Israel disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace and ... -
Iran’s supreme leader killed in major attack by US and Israel
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early today (Sunday), throwing ... -
World leaders react cautiously to US and Israeli strikes on Iran as fears grow of a wider war
World leaders reacted warily to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday that triggered concerns of a broader conflict. European leaders held emergency meetings and ... -
US and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to ‘take over your government’
DUBAI — The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran today (Saturday), and President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to “seize control ... -
US and Iran hold hours of nuclear talks as more American forces deploy in region
Iran and the United States held hours of indirect talks yesterday in Geneva over Tehran’s nuclear negotiations viewed as a last chance for diplomacy as America ... -
Pezeshkian apologizes over crackdown as nation marks 1979 Islamic Revolution
Iran marked the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution yesterday as the country’s theocracy remains under pressure, both from U.S. President Donald Trump who suggested ... -
Iran, US hold nuclear talks as Trump delivers blunt warning to Khamenei
Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States will take place today in Oman, the Iranian foreign minister said, as tensions between the countries remain high ... -
Iran summons EU ambassadors to protest Revolutionary Guard listing as terror group
Iran said yesterday it had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ... -
A month after protests began, worry pervades Middle East
Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East yesterday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, a month since the ... -
Internet shutdown squeezes Iran’s ailing businesses
Iranians have been struggling for nearly two weeks with the longest, most comprehensive internet shutdown in the history of the Islamic Republic — one that has ... -
Trump says Tehran wants to negotiate as death toll in protests rises
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a ... -
Gov’t warns US troops and Israel will be targets if America strikes over protests as death toll rises
Nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city into yesterday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding ... -
Protest-hit Iran warily watches the US after its raid on Venezuela
Iran faces a new round of protests challenging the country’s theocracy, but it seems like the only thing people there want to talk about is half ... -
Iranian president orders probe after man dies from self-immolation in food stand
An Iranian man who set himself on fire after municipal workers shut down his family’s food stand has died from his injuries, prompting the country’s president ... -
UN imposes ‘snapback’ sanctions on a hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran
The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran yesterday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food ... -
Rial currency falls to near-record lows on European ‘snapback’ sanctions
Iran’s rial currency fell to near-record lows yesterday as concerns grew in Tehran that European nations will start a process to reimpose United Nations sanctions on ...
