US Sanctions
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Iraq sending team to US to seek deal on transactions with Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Iraq will send a delegation to the United States seeking an agreement on financial transactions with Iran, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in his weekly news conference on Tuesday.
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Former IAEA official:
JCPOA without US doesn't technologically benefit Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general for safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Mehr News that the remaining participants of Iran nuclear deal will have"substantial difficulties in providing all technologies and equipment agreed.”
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Energy Commission spox:
Total to leave all equipment, investment in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Spokesperson for the Energy Commission said Tue. that all equipment and investment by Total in developing Iran’s South Pars project will remain in the country despite the French energy giant’s exit.
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Macron slams US ‘isolationism’, calls for EU’s financial independence
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – The French president Emmanuel Macron criticized US President Donald Trump’s “aggressive” isolationism, calling on EU to defend itself against US extraterritorial sanctions.
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By: Hanif Ghaffari
Bolton's negotiations against Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – John Bolton, the US National Security Advisor, continues his anti-Iranian negotiations in various fields. In recent weeks, he has been busy discussing the presence of Iran in Syria and, on the other hand, engaging in negotiations with other countries over Iran's sanctions.
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ICJ begins hearing Iran lawsuit against reinstated US sanctions
TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began on Monday to hear Iran’s case against the United States’ re-imposed sanctions after its unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA.
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Rouhani to Macron:
Signatories should boost efforts, transparency for saving JCPOA
TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – Presidents of Iran and France had a phone call and discussed bilateral, regional and international issues, stressing that they will make their best to further cement Tehran-Paris relations.
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Iran-S Korea relations hinged on US sanctions
TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, told South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Ryu Jeong-Hyun that the future of Iran-S Korea relations is dependent on whether obeying or defying US sanctions against Iran.
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By: Alireza Mohammadi
US economic sanctions affect European security
TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) – The US is pursuing its unilateral and oppressive sanctions against Russia, Iran, and more recently, Turkey, with specific and insidious objectives. These sanctions can have a number of significant economic consequences on the countries affected as well as the region.
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IRGC cmdr. says foreign threats have adverse effect
TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) – Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says that military threats against the Islamic Republic have an adverse effect, stressing that the enemy will be the loser.
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US sanctions to have no effect on Iran’s wagon mfg. industry
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novin Sanat Raja Company Farhad Farahmand Mohammadi said that US sanctions will have no effect on Iranian wagon manufacturing industry.
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Rouhani says govt. taking steps to ease economic woes
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani promised that his government is making every effort to alleviate the people’s economic woes, stressing the need for unity and perseverance.
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US condemns EU’s development aid to Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – US special representative for Iran Brian Hook said that EU’s €18 million development aid package to Tehran would undermine US efforts to isolate Islamic Republic.
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Top US banks won’t commit to ending Iranian financial access: report
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – Two top American financial institutions would not commit to cutting Iranian access to international financial markets as part of Trump's anti-Iran campaign, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday.
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ICJ to hear Iran's challenge against US sanctions Mon.
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) – Iran's legal challenge against US illegal sanctions goes before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday (Aug 27), since US has no right to reinstate such measures.
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EU’s €18 mn aid irrelevant to JCPOA package: Ghasemi
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said that the €18 million package to support Iran by the European Commission is different from the EU package of measures to counter US sanctions on Iran.
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European Commission adopts support package for Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) – The European Commission today adopted a first package of €18 million for projects in support of sustainable economic and social development in Iran, including €8 million assistance to the private sector.
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Australia vows to maintain ties with Iran amid US sanctions
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) – An official at Australia’s foreign affairs and trade ministry, while criticizing US for violating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, stressed Melbourne’s resolve to maintain trade transactions with Tehran despite US sanctions.
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Official:
Iran, Italy continue banking transactions by ditching dollar
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) – President of Iran-Italy Joint Chamber of Commerce said Thu. that the two countries will continue their banking transactions by ditching dollar in the face of US sanctions.
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Hakim calls on Washington to review anti-Iran policies
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – The leader of the National Wisdom Movement of Iraq has said Iraq should not remain silent about US Iran-related sanctions, calling on the Americans to change their policies against Iran.
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Iran nuclear chief:
US replaced with UK in constructing re-designed Arak heavy reactor
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says that the United Kingdom has taken over the share of the United States in a working group tasked with re-building Arak heavy reactor.
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Senior cleric:
US dream of negotiations with Iran never comes true
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – All of the US presidents have sought to negotiate with Iran, but they all have failed to achieve that goal, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said at Eid al-Adha prayers this morning.
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UN special rapporteur calls US sanctions on Iran cruel, unfair
TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) – In a Monday statement at the UN office in Geneva, the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures Idriss Jazairy called the re-imposed US sanctions against Iran ‘unfair and cruel’.
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China shifts to Iranian tankers to keep oil flowing
TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) – Chinese buyers of Iranian oil are starting to shift their cargoes to vessels owned by National Iranian Tanker Co. (NITC) for nearly all of their imports to keep supply flowing amid the re-imposition of economic sanctions by the US, Reuters reported Tuesday.
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Who is Brian Hook?
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) – On the eve of the 65 anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadeq, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as Washington’s special representative for Iran.
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EU blocking statute can't protect Iran against US sanctions: Fitzpatrick
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) – Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of International Institute for Strategic Studies says that the EU blocking statute cannot by itself protect Iran against the impact of US sanctions because any firms that do business with the United States will still need to decide for themselves if it is worth risking this business for the sake of trade with Iran.
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Parliament’s national security commission discusses Iran’s lawsuit against US
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) – In a Sunday meeting in Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission the lawsuit relating to US JCPOA withdrawal and re-imposing sanctions on Iran in The Hague was discussed.
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In an interview with CNN:
FM Zarif says US has 'addiction to sanctions'
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) – In a Sunday interview with the CNN, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the United States is addicted to applying sanctions on Iran.
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By: Mudasir Sheikh
US faces isolation in global community by sanctioning Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – The recent statement of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani regarding isolation of the US due to its unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, also known as JCPOA, seems to become more relevant with every passing day as obvious from the actions of BRICS, EU and other countries like Turkey.
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Larijani:
US pursuing same ploy of 1953 coup in Iran's nuclear case
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Sun. that the US is following the same ploy it used in the 1953 Iran coup in Tehran’s nuclear case, its regional influence and defense power.