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All through the recent weeks since US President Donald Trump coined the epithet “China virus” to rename Coronavirus, Moscow kept a deafening silence. Finally, on...

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To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the students in Shiraz, Fars province Province, have formed small groups disinfecting passing cars.

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Statement from Vice President Joe Biden on Sanctions Relief During COVID-19 [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n times of global crisis, America should lead. We should be the first to...

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If there is one word to describe the state of US-Iran relations in 2020, it’s “edgy.” This January, the two countries were dangerously on the precipice of a wide-scale military...

Iran is laying the groundwork for final talks with Chinese and Russian developers to take a more central development role in the field (Darkhoein), once the global oil market has...

China’s long-running pursuit of infrastructure projects in Iran is set to continue despite intensified US sanctions as the Islamic Republic battles the novel coronavirus, analysts...

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Some wars are fought with bombs and bullets. These are the wars in Syria and Iraq, in Afghanistan and Yemen. Then there are quieter wars...

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In his 1948 classic novel “The Plague,” which tells the story of the fictional outbreak of a rat-borne plague in the Algerian port city of Oran...

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Question: What kind of maniac risks such a war in the middle of a global pandemic?

Less than two weeks ago, the Trump administration urged Americans to avoid nonessential travel to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Major airlines slashed their...

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Sweeping U.S. sanctions are hampering Iranian efforts to import medicine and other medical supplies to confront one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, health workers and sanctions experts...

The Iranian authorities announced the launch of a one-week social distancing plan amid the coronavirus epidemic across the country. Tehran residents respect the social distancing...

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As Iran struggles to contain COVID-19, the US has imposed new sanctions that further weaken the Iranian economy and health system.

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The phone call by the UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday signifies in many ways...

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A diverse group of academics, researchers and NGO leaders have signed the following open letter addressed to the leaders of the P4+1 countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Russia)...

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq. When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of...

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Although he was exonerated, Dr Sirous Asgari remains locked up and tells the Guardian ‘inhumane’ jail is denying detainees masks and hand sanitizer

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has often declared that he considers himself to be a devout evangelical Christian, and in November 2019 told the New York Times Magazine that the...

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Iran is in terrible shape. It is among the countries worst hit by the coronavirus — more than 27,000 documented cases to date. Sanctions have choked its economy. Tensions with...

Every spring, Iranians around the globe join with family and friends to invite the coming of a New Year or Nowruz. Nowruz is the first...

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Interviews with defectors, including several who held senior positions, offer the most detailed account to date of what life was like inside the MEK. Read...

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Coronavirus is a crisis. In Iran, it’s a massacre - because of Trump’s sanctions. Even before COVID-19, these sanctions were recognised by Human Rights Watch...

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The despicable Mr. Charlatan is known to all of us, he is the deceiving, conniving, scandalous, and cruel bully whose greed is limitless and his...

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Antoine Hayek, the former jailer of the Israeli-established Kiyam detention and concentration camp in Lebanon, was found dead in his store in Miyu-Miyeh, east of Sidon in the south of...

Will the coronavirus result in the second withdrawal of US troops from Iraq? There is an increasing question of whether the some 5,000 US military...

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Happy Iranian New Year, it's 1399! last year didn't end so well, but don't complete your 14th century on a lousy note! The 15th century...

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Ghormeh sabzi on a pizza? Yara convinced the goddess of Iranian cuisine, Najmieh Batmanglij, to transform Iran’s national dish into a pizza ... with tons...

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Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the International Organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi said on Thursday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send two sets of reverse transcription polymerase chain...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has tested positive for COVID-19, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) reported on Thursday, citing the parliament's public relations...

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Kamal Foroughi, an 80-year-old man with dual Iranian-British nationality, has returned to the United Kingdom nine years after being arrested in Iran on spying charges, the British Foreign and Commonwealth...

The US has transferred its military equipment from Iraq to an area near the Syrian city of al-Hasakah, a report by Syria’s official news agency says. A convoy of 20...

For the US administration, it appears now is as good a time as any to start a major proxy war with Iran inside Iraq. Or...

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Asked if there might come a point at which the United States might reevaluate its stance on easing sanctions, Pompeo told a news conference: “we evaluate all of our policies...

The Trump administration should suspend sweeping U.S. sanctions on Iran that are hindering the country’s response to its massive coronavirus outbreak, more than 30 lawmakers said in a letter to...

Iran’s natural gas exports to Turkey have stopped following an explosion on a pipeline near their joint border, an official at the National Iranian Gas...

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The Federal Foreign Office of Germany in a tweet confirmed the first transaction with Iran through the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) on...

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Iran's Vice President for Economic Affairs Mohammad Nahavandian said many EU states back Iran's $5b loan bid from the International Monetary Fund, adding that more...

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The Trump administration on Monday renewed several waivers on U.S. sanctions against Iran, allowing Russian, European and Chinese companies to continue to work on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities without drawing...

Tensions with Iran are one thing. There are tensions within the military about Iran as well. The U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Robert “Pat” White, has warned McKenzie and...

The CEO of an Iranian knowledge-based company announced the manufacturing of a thermo-imaging machine, emphasizing that major parts of the machine are produced domestically. "We...

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On the same day the United States leveled yet more sanctions against the Islamic Republic, blacklisting 20 Iran- and Iraq-based companies, officials and individuals for...

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Most nations, even developed ones, are currently suffering from a shortage of medicines and medical supplies, with medical staff putting in long hours of overtime....

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to the US' background of sabotage and assassinations and warned Americans to stop aiding war...

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“We are in difficult conditions, in conditions of sanctions but we have allocated 20% of our budget this year to corona, … and this might be surprising for the world...

Afghanistan has already imported its epidemic. And each day it adds to it, as thousands more displaced Afghans continue to flow across the border from Iran, which has reported among...

US forces in Iraq began their withdrawal from a key northern airfield on Thursday, returning Qayyara Air Base to Iraqi control. With its two 11,000-foot...

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Washington cut its latest exemption to 30 days and sanctioned 20 individuals and entities it accuses of funneling money to a unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

The United States on Thursday blacklisted 20 Iran- and Iraq-based companies, officials and individuals, accusing them of supporting terrorist groups and ramping up pressure on Tehran even as the Islamic...

The State Department now seems to be leveling new accusations against Iran and China on a near-daily basis related to their role in facilitating the...

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France has withdrawn its troops from Iraq, deployed as part of a U.S.-led coalition against the Daesh/ISIS terror group, according to local Iraqi media. The...

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Earlier today, I announced that I will not be running for re-election as Washington State’s lieutenant governor and have decided to enter the Society of Jesus. This decision follows two...

As even Britain is urging its close US ally to moderate its stance on Iran sanctions as the Mideast country's death toll surges from the coronavirus pandemic,...

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President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the number of people hospitalized and deaths due to the coronavirus are decreasing in Iran, which show important...

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Reports and in some cases video began emerging last week of mass shipments of humanitarian supplies being halted and grounded by skittish EU countries worried about violating...

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If you slap secondary sanctions on a close ally for complying with an effective international agreement, don't feign outrage when they pursue their own interests.https://t.co/nUv11AmHVz — Suzanne DiMaggio (@suzannedimaggio) March...

The European Union will send 20 million euros in humanitarian aid to Iran, which is subject to U.S. sanctions, to help alleviate the coronavirus, and will also support Tehran’s request...

All through the recent weeks since US President Donald Trump coined the epithet “China virus” to rename Coronavirus, Moscow kept a deafening silence. Finally, on...

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To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the students in Shiraz, Fars province Province, have formed small groups disinfecting passing cars.

Comment

Statement from Vice President Joe Biden on Sanctions Relief During COVID-19 [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n times of global crisis, America should lead. We should be the first to...

1 Comment(s)

If there is one word to describe the state of US-Iran relations in 2020, it’s “edgy.” This January, the two countries were dangerously on the precipice of a wide-scale military...

Iran is laying the groundwork for final talks with Chinese and Russian developers to take a more central development role in the field (Darkhoein), once the global oil market has...

China’s long-running pursuit of infrastructure projects in Iran is set to continue despite intensified US sanctions as the Islamic Republic battles the novel coronavirus, analysts...

Comment

Some wars are fought with bombs and bullets. These are the wars in Syria and Iraq, in Afghanistan and Yemen. Then there are quieter wars...

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In his 1948 classic novel “The Plague,” which tells the story of the fictional outbreak of a rat-borne plague in the Algerian port city of Oran...

Comment

Question: What kind of maniac risks such a war in the middle of a global pandemic?

Less than two weeks ago, the Trump administration urged Americans to avoid nonessential travel to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Major airlines slashed their...

1 Comment(s)

The Iranian authorities announced the launch of a one-week social distancing plan amid the coronavirus epidemic across the country. Tehran residents respect the social distancing...

Comment

As Iran struggles to contain COVID-19, the US has imposed new sanctions that further weaken the Iranian economy and health system.

1 Comment(s)

The phone call by the UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday signifies in many ways...

1 Comment(s)

A diverse group of academics, researchers and NGO leaders have signed the following open letter addressed to the leaders of the P4+1 countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Russia)...

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq. When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of...

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Although he was exonerated, Dr Sirous Asgari remains locked up and tells the Guardian ‘inhumane’ jail is denying detainees masks and hand sanitizer

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has often declared that he considers himself to be a devout evangelical Christian, and in November 2019 told the New York Times Magazine that the...

5 Comment(s)

Iran is in terrible shape. It is among the countries worst hit by the coronavirus — more than 27,000 documented cases to date. Sanctions have choked its economy. Tensions with...

Every spring, Iranians around the globe join with family and friends to invite the coming of a New Year or Nowruz. Nowruz is the first...

4 Comment(s)

Interviews with defectors, including several who held senior positions, offer the most detailed account to date of what life was like inside the MEK. Read...

2 Comment(s)

Coronavirus is a crisis. In Iran, it’s a massacre - because of Trump’s sanctions. Even before COVID-19, these sanctions were recognised by Human Rights Watch...

2 Comment(s)

The despicable Mr. Charlatan is known to all of us, he is the deceiving, conniving, scandalous, and cruel bully whose greed is limitless and his...

1 Comment(s)

Antoine Hayek, the former jailer of the Israeli-established Kiyam detention and concentration camp in Lebanon, was found dead in his store in Miyu-Miyeh, east of Sidon in the south of...

Will the coronavirus result in the second withdrawal of US troops from Iraq? There is an increasing question of whether the some 5,000 US military...

1 Comment(s)

Happy Iranian New Year, it's 1399! last year didn't end so well, but don't complete your 14th century on a lousy note! The 15th century...

2 Comment(s)

Ghormeh sabzi on a pizza? Yara convinced the goddess of Iranian cuisine, Najmieh Batmanglij, to transform Iran’s national dish into a pizza ... with tons...

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