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The US administration is set to announce this Monday (sept. 10) the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington as a sanction against Palestinians over their refusal to espouse President Donald Trump’s peace deal between Palestine and Read more
The United States is planning to impose on Turkey fresh sanctions should Turkish authorities not release the detained American Pastor that President Donald Trump qualified as a “great patriot hostage”. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a meeting with President Trump Read more
The United States decided to lift restrictions on $195 million military aid held last year over concern on Egypt’s poor human rights record, an official of the US State Department announced Wednesday. The decision to allow Cairo to use the Read more
Ankara Tuesday said it told the United States it is opposed to sanctions on Iran as the Trump Administration is due to impose new economic punishments on the Islamic Republic next month while the deadline for allies to stop buying Read more
US President Donald Trump Sunday warned Iran not to threaten the United States after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also cautioned the Trump administration against a war with the Islamic Republic stressing it will be the ‘mother of all wars.’ “Never, Read more
The United States Tuesday slapped sanctions on the alleged Iran-backed al-Ashtar Brigades that it designated as terror group and blamed for attacks on security forces. The State Department said in a statement the group, which was established in 2013, Read more
US ambassador to Germany Tuesday urged German authorities to prevent withdrawal by Iran of around €300 million ($350 million) from its Germany-based accounts as it faces suffocating economic pressure led by the United States. Richard Grenell, a staunch aid Read more
Saudi Arabia’s national carrier Saudia has entered in negotiations with Boeing to buy several wide body jets (777X) of the American aircraft producer, sources have told Reuters. Saudia’s authorities are negotiating several 777-Xs as the airline looks to return to Read more
Six people were wounded late Wednesday after a refinery in Abadan, south-west of the country, caught fire. The fire-fighters tackled the damage in which six people were wounded, one in critical conditions, sources told semi-state media Tasnim news agency. Causes Read more
The White House has embarked on a global campaign to bring allies to dry up Iran’s money sources with cutoff importations of Iranian oil by November 4. “Yes, we are asking them to go to zero,” a US official told Read more