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Iran Says New Framework Needed to Access Bombed Nuclear Sites

This is Beirut, 21/11 18:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a new approach should be taken for the monitoring of the country's nuclear sites attacked in a recent war with Israel. Tehran is under pressure from Western powers to allow inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog into the facilities. "We need a method or a framework for how to inspect ...

Jafar Panahi Accelerates Awards Campaign Amid Global Political Constraints

This is Beirut, 21/11 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States — visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride — as he promotes his Oscar-hopeful It Was Just an Accident. The film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, has been selected by France as its official nomination for the Academy Awards, ...

Iran Says No Access to Bombed Nuclear Sites Without IAEA Deal

This is Beirut, 20/11 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the UN's nuclear watchdog would not be given access to Iranian nuclear sites attacked during its recent war with Israel without a concrete deal being agreed. "The facilities that were attacked have their own story, and until a decision is made and a conclusion is reached between us, the IAEA and ...

UN Nuclear Head Renews Call for Iran to Allow Inspections at Key Sites

This is Beirut, 19/11 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The head of the UN nuclear agency on Wednesday renewed his call for Iran to allow inspections at key nuclear sites attacked by Israel and the United States in June. Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly flared in recent years and were further inflamed after a 12-day war in June that saw Israeli ...

Pro-Iran Camp Reunites to Form Majority in Iraq Parliament

This is Beirut, 17/11 23:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Iraq Iran Elections Iraq Parliament

Iraq's pro-Iran Coordination Framework alliance announced on Monday it had formed the majority bloc in the newly elected parliament and said that it will nominate the next prime minister. The announcement came after the electoral committee released the seat distribution from the November 11 general election, which showed that pro-Tehran parties ...

A New Epicenter Emerges in the Near East

Charles Chartouni, 17/11 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The situation in the Near East is still groping its way towards a new equilibrium. So far, it seems that the destruction of the proxy networks mounted by Iran’s Islamic regime has not yet eclipsed pursuit of political revanche all along the geopolitical spectrum extending through Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, Gaza, and their ...

Iran Design Week Sparks Controversy After Viral Videos Surface

This is Beirut, 17/11 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A cultural event in Iran dedicated to design has stirred controversy after viral videos—denounced as “vulgar”—showed women without headscarves, leading to a partial shutdown, a local media outlet reported Sunday. Tehran Design Week, held across roughly sixty venues, promotes itself as a must-see gathering for brands, artists, and design ...

Foreign Minister Says 'No Undeclared Nuclear Enrichment Facility' in Iran

This is Beirut, 16/11 16:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that the country had no undeclared uranium enrichment sites and that all of its facilities were monitored by the UN's nuclear watchdog. The assertion came after US media outlets, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, reported that Iran had accelerated construction at a secret ...

Iran Begins Cloud Seeding Operations as Severe Drought Bites

This is Beirut, 16/11 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Iran Cloud Seeding Drought Water

Iranian authorities have launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as the country faces its worst drought in decades, state media reported. "Today, a cloud seeding flight was conducted in the Urmia Lake basin for the first time in the current water year," which begins in September, the official IRNA news agency said late ...

Iran Guards confirm they seized oil tanker in Gulf

This is Beirut, 15/11 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Strait of Hormuz

Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Saturday that they had seized an oil tanker in the Gulf off the country's coast, a day after security companies determined they were likely responsible. "Yesterday morning at 7:30, after a judicial authority ordered the seizure of the cargo of an oil tanker with the trade name Talara and the flag of the ...

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