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Iran has ramped up its crackdown on opposition figures on Sunday and Monday, arresting activists and reformists weeks after its brutal suppression of January’s anti-regime protest movement. Tehran has stated that the arrests were made against people seeking to disrupt the country’s social order, claiming that they were acting as ...
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The U.S. Treasury Department released a statement on Tuesday outlining new sanctions that target Hezbollah’s cash-based financial network. Elaborating on the sanctions, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent stated that the “Treasury will work to cut these terrorists off from the global financial system to give Lebanon a chance to be ...
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved pardons or sentence reductions for more than 2,000 convicts on Tuesday, according to the judiciary, while explicitly excluding those linked to recent nationwide protests. According to AFP, the decision, which covered 2,108 inmates, was made at the request of the head of the judiciary and ...
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Iran warned Tuesday of "destructive" influence on diplomacy ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington for talks expected to focus on U.S. negotiations with Tehran. "Our negotiating party is America. It is up to America to decide to act independently of the pressures and destructive influences that are detrimental to ...
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Iran's top security official met Oman's ruler in Muscat on Tuesday, days after a new round of talks there between officials from Washington and Tehran. Ali Larijani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq "discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations", the official Oman News Agency ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he would prioritise discussions on negotiations with Iran when he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week. "On this trip we will discuss a range of issues: Gaza, the region, but of course first and foremost the negotiations with Iran. I will present to the ...
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Iran conveyed its position on the issue of uranium enrichment on Monday, stating that it would not be coerced to scale back its nuclear program but would be willing to dilute its enriched uranium if sanctions are lifted. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, signaled the country’s willingness to dilute its ...
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Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Monday that Lebanon has preserved its independence through resistance and possesses “real capabilities,” arguing that the country’s central challenge remains what he described as ongoing Israeli and American aggression. Speaking during a public address, Qassem said that sustained Israeli ...
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The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it was ramping up monitoring of Iranian financial networks, alleging that the Iranian government is transferring funds overseas to shield assets from soaring domestic inflation and long-standing American sanctions. The United States has intensified efforts to track Iranian money flows, accusing Tehran ...
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Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s top security body and a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, will visit Oman on Tuesday, Iranian media reported, following renewed indirect talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program. Larijani will head a delegation that “will meet with senior officials of ...
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Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that Iran’s missile program is “never negotiable” in talks with the United States, while confirming that Tehran and Washington have agreed to hold another round of negotiations “soon,” though no date has yet been set. “Missiles are never negotiable because they are a defense issue,” Araghchi said in an ...
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US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order threatening tariffs on Iran's trade partners, after he pledged a further round of talks with Tehran next week. The order, effective from Saturday, called for a fresh "imposition of tariffs" on countries still doing business with Iran. It comes amid heightened tensions between ...