Today, the Department of State is imposing sanctions on Vietnam Gas and Chemicals Transportation Corporation, a vessel manager, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13846.
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By Weblord | 16 December, 2020 | Categories: Exclude, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The United States condemns the law recently approved by Iran’s Majles and Guardian Council, which is nothing more than the regime’s latest ploy to use its nuclear program to try to intimidate the international community.
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By Weblord | 11 December, 2020 | Categories: Exclude, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The Iranian regime tried to hide the evidence of its brutal crackdown through censorship, intimidation, and the digital darkness of Internet shutdowns, and still refuses to allow independent investigations into the killings it perpetrated during that fateful week. But we will never forget the regime’s victims Anniversary of Protests in Iran PRESS STATEMENT MICHAEL R. …
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By Weblord | 15 November, 2020 | Categories: Exclude All, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Press Statement Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State November 11, 2020 On November 10, 2020 the Department of the Treasury designated an international network of six companies and four individuals for facilitating the procurement of sensitive goods, including U.S.-origin electronic components, for Iran Communications Industries (ICI). ICI is a sanctioned Iranian military firm and …
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By Weblord | 11 November, 2020 | Categories: Exclude All, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
On September 19, virtually all UN sanctions on Iran returned, including re-imposition of the UN arms embargo. Accordingly, the export of certain conventional arms to Iran is a violation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1929 and the procurement of any arms or related materiel from Iran is a violation of UNSCR 1747.
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By Weblord | 18 October, 2020 | Categories: Exclude All, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Today, the United States is identifying the Iranian financial sector as subject to the terms of Executive Order (E.O.) 13902 and sanctioning 18 major Iranian banks, further depriving the Islamic Republic of Iran of funds to carry out its support for terrorist activities and nuclear extortion that threatens the world.
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By Weblord | 8 October, 2020 | Categories: Exclude, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
My Administration will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, nor will we allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles and conventional arms.
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By Weblord | 21 September, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
After 49 years, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors, and begin cooperation across the board and on a broad range of areas, including tourism, education, healthcare, trade, and security. The White House August 13, 2020 Foreign Policy Oval Office 10:51 A.M. EDT THE …
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By Weblord | 14 August, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy, Political Affairs, President of the United States, Press Releases
The United States is applauding the Executive Council of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), for its adoption today of a decision that condemns Syria’s use of chemical weapons.
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By Weblord | 9 July, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: acda, arms control, Policy, Syria
Special Representative Hook noted that the Security Council should be united over its concern with Iranian arms transfers, and that it has maintained arms restrictions on Iran since 2007.
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By Weblord | 24 June, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Today, at President Donald J. Trump’s direction, the Department of the Treasury and Department of State announced important sanctions designations on individuals and entities actively supporting the murderous and barbaric Assad regime in Syria. Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Treasury and State Sanctions on the Assad Regime The White House Foreign Policy June 17, …
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By Weblord | 17 June, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy, Press Releases | Tags: Assad
Today, sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and its Shanghai-based subsidiary, E-Sail Shipping Company Ltd (E-Sail) have come into effect. United States Designates Key Iranian Shipping Entities Under Proliferation Authority as Tehran Continues To Expand Proliferation Sensitive Activities PRESS STATEMENT MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 08, 2020 Today, …
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By Weblord | 8 June, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Today, I am announcing the end of the sanctions waiver covering all remaining JCPOA-originating nuclear projects in Iran – the Arak reactor conversion, the provision of enriched uranium for the Tehran Research Reactor, and the export of Iran’s spent and scrap research reactor fuel
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By Weblord | 27 May, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: Arak, Iran, Iranian
Today, the United States is imposing financial sanctions and visa restrictions on Iranian individuals and entities under human rights-related authorities. Standing with the Iranian People PRESS STATEMENT MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 20, 2020 Today, the United States is imposing financial sanctions and visa restrictions on Iranian individuals and entities under human …
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By Weblord | 20 May, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Two years ago, President Trump announced the bold decision to protect the world from Iran’s violence and the nuclear threats it poses by exiting from the flawed Iran Deal and its façade of security. Since that time, we have built the strongest sanctions in history and prevented Iran from funding and equipping terrorists with many …
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By Weblord | 9 May, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
As Secretary Pompeo indicated yesterday, the United States is firm in its position that come October of this year the Iranian regime will not be able to buy convention weapons from Russia, China, or anywhere else.
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By Weblord | 30 April, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Iran has long used its naval forces to terrorize the international maritime community – this is not a new phenomenon.
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By Weblord | 22 April, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of State sanctioned nine entities and three individuals who have engaged in activity that could enable the Iranian regime’s violent behavior.
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By provenzaee | 19 March, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Today, the United States is designating a senior Assad regime official who is responsible for the violence and the disastrous humanitarian crisis in northern Syria.
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By Weblord | 17 March, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Michael R. Pompeo, Syria
Secretary Pompeo reiterated that the Government of Iraq must defend Coalition personnel supporting the Iraqi government’s efforts to defeat ISIS. Secretary Pompeo’s Call with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi Readout Office of the Spokesperson March 16, 2020 The below is attributable to Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke with …
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By Weblord | 16 March, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
We encourage the international community to continue to provide assistance to Syria’s neighbors to share the costs of Syria’s refugee crisis. Displaced Syrians must be allowed to return voluntarily and safely to their homes, without fear of arbitrary detention, violation of rights and forced conscription. Yet, the Syrian regime continues to prevent them from doing …
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 15 March, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa | Tags: Syria
The United States calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately release on humanitarian grounds all wrongfully detained Americans being held in Iran. The United States will hold the Iranian regime directly responsible for any American deaths. Our response will be decisive.
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By Weblord | 10 March, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Iran needs to be essentially blacklisted from participating in the international financial system after the regime’s refusal to implement restrictions against terrorist financing, an international watchdog group said February 21.
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By Weblord | 27 February, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
A U.S. seizure of Iranian-made missiles headed to the Houthis in Yemen shows the Iranian regime continuing to sow violence and flout international rules.
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By Weblord | 26 February, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledges that Iran’s regime is in dire straits. But rather than taking responsibility, he is asking the Iranian people to vote for more of the same.
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By Weblord | 20 February, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
One in 4 of Iran’s most educated citizens leave their country when given the opportunity. They leave in search of greater social and religious freedoms and for better employment opportunities.
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By Weblord | 5 February, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
President Donald J. Trump recognizes it is time for a new approach to achieve peace, security, dignity, and opportunity for Israel and the Palestinian people.
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By Weblord | 28 January, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestinian, Vision for Peace
Fearing for her safety, an Iranian chess referee is refusing to return home after photos showed her officiating at an international chess match without wearing an adequate headscarf.
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By Weblord | 21 January, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Yesterday, the Department of State designated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour, Khuzestan Province’s Vali Asr Commander, for his involvement in gross violations of human rights against protestors during the November protests in Mahshahr, Iran.
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 18 January, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News | Tags: Hassan Shahvarpour, IRGC
Speech by Secretary of State Pompeo at The Hoover Institute at Stanford University, California
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By Weblord | 13 January, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Statement from President Trump Regarding Executive Order to Impose Sanctions with Respect to Additional Sectors of Iran
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By Weblord | 10 January, 2020 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign is wreaking havoc on Iran’s economy, and the campaign will continue as long as the Iranian regime pursues its destabilizing behavior.
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By Weblord | 18 September, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
A 29-year-old Iranian woman died on September 9 several days after setting herself on fire in front of a Tehran courthouse. She had just learned she might have to spend six months in jail for trying to watch a soccer (football) game.
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By Weblord | 11 September, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Today, the Department of State designated the Iran Space Agency and two of its research institutes under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD delivery systems and their supporters – the first time the United States is publicly designating Iran’s civilian space agency.
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By Weblord | 3 September, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The Iranian regime has stopped renewing foreign journalists’ credentials and even closed a newspaper friendly to its cause, part of a worsening crackdown in a country with an abysmal reputation for press freedoms.
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By Weblord | 30 August, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The United States assesses that the M/T Grace I was assisting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by transporting oil from Iran to Syria. This could result in serious consequences for any individuals associated with the Grace I.
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By Weblord | 15 August, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
U.S. sanctions target bad actors in the Iranian regime, not the people of Iran, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook explains. Learn how the United States does not sanction medical supplies, agricultural products, communication devices or humanitarian aid intended for the Iranian people.
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By Weblord | 23 July, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The Iran regime’s attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf are driving up shipping costs and endangering lives while demonstrating the regime’s use of violence and extortion to seek leverage in the international community.
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By Weblord | 15 July, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
For years the Iranian regime has failed to live up to its word. It employs hostage taking and other forms of blackmail to negotiate in world affairs. That track record continues.
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By Weblord | 2 July, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Iran’s leaders are spreading disinformation because they know the truth is dangerous to their regime. The United States is setting the record straight.
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By Weblord | 25 June, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Disinformation, Iran, Iranian
Joint Statement by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States on Yemen and the Region MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON JUNE 24, 2019 The text of the following statement on Yemen was released by the Governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and …
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 24 June, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa | Tags: Gulf of Oman, Houthi, Iran, Sanaa, Yemen
Executive Order to Impose Sanctions on the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
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By Weblord | 24 June, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Sharply higher U.S. energy production and cooperation with other major energy producers are strengthening the Trump administration’s ability to impose sanctions on Iran.
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By Weblord | 28 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Recently, Christians in Iran faced a dramatic uptick in arrests — a 1,000 percent rise during 2018. The list includes more than 100 Christians detained for holding Christmas gatherings in their homes.
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By Weblord | 23 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The regime in Tehran should understand that any attacks by them or their proxies of any identity against U.S. interests or citizens will be answered with a swift and decisive U.S. response. Our restraint to this point should not be mistaken by Iran for a lack of resolve. Press Statement Michael R. Pompeo Secretary …
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By Weblord | 9 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
America is not countering Iran alone. Since our withdrawal from the deal, our allies and partners have stepped up to counter Iranian aggression with us. We have acted with countries from nearly every continent to disrupt Iran’s illicit oil shipping operations. The European Union passed new sanctions against Iranian entities in response to two foiled …
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By Weblord | 8 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian, Mahan Air
President Trump signed an executive order May 8 that authorizes secondary sanctions on individuals and financial institutions dealing in Iranian metals in order to deny the Iranian regime the cash it needs to fund its terrorist activities around the world.
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By Weblord | 8 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
[We] just took off out of Baghdad. I had two meetings. I was with Ambassador Satterfield, Charge Joey Hood, and Lieutenant General LaCamera. We met with – first with the prime minister and then with President Salih. In each meeting, we went through a number of things.
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By Weblord | 7 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: uk, united kingdom, US-UK
So the reason we’re going is you’ve all seen the reports that there have been escalating – information that indicates that Iran is escalating their activity. I wanted to go to Baghdad to speak with the leadership there, to assure them that we stood ready to continue to ensure that Iraq was a sovereign, independent …
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By Weblord | 7 May, 2019 | Categories: Europe & Eurasia, Near East & North Africa, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Michael R. Pompeo, uk, US-UK
The Trump administration continues to hold the Iranian regime accountable for activities that threaten the region’s stability and harm the Iranian people. This includes denying Iran any pathway to a nuclear weapon. As part of the administration’s unprecedented maximum pressure campaign to address the full range of Iran’s destructive activities, Secretary Pompeo has today tightened …
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By Weblord | 3 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The Department of State is appalled by the Iranian regime’s secret execution of two 17-year old males, Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, as reported by Amnesty International. According to this report, Iran has resumed its execution of minors, while attempting to keep this inhumane practice hidden from the world.
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By Weblord | 1 May, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says Iran has slipped further toward the bottom of its World Press Freedom Index because of an increase in arrests of Iranian journalists and citizen-journalists.
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By Weblord | 30 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian, press freedom
The United States strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s growing crackdown on women advocating for their human rights. We call on the Iranian authorities to end their harassment and imprisonment of women who are simply expressing their conscience and demanding basic rights. Press Statement Morgan Ortagus Department Spokesperson Washington, DC April 30, 2019 The United …
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By Weblord | 30 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on April 22 that the United States will end all exceptions for countries currently purchasing oil from Iran.
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By Webmaster | 26 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian, Oil
Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 22, 2019 The United States is not granting any Significant Reduction Exceptions to existing importers of Iranian oil. Maximum pressure means maximum pressure. Secretary Pompeo announced his decision not to grant any Significant Reduction Exceptions to existing importers of Iranian oil. As the Secretary has …
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By Weblord | 23 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook recently summarized how countries around the world — from Panama to Germany to Singapore — have joined the U.S. in depriving the Iranian regime of resources to further its global terrorist campaign.
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By Webmaster | 16 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Before the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iranian women were acquiring rights along with women in other parts of the world. The Iranian Islamic Revolution wiped out those gains.
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By Weblord | 8 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
By Weblord | 3 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
At a time when the Iranian people are demanding fiscal accountability, the Iranian regime has spent more than $16 billion propping up Syria’s Assad regime and supporting its other partners and proxies in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
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By Weblord | 1 April, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
Senior Administration Officials on Iran
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By Weblord | 22 March, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
United States Imposes New Nuclear Sanctions on Iran as it Refuses To Answer Questions Related to Its Secret Nuclear Archive
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By Weblord | 22 March, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
For the past 40 years, the United States has maintained the Iranian Embassy in Washington, anticipating the day the U.S. and Iran will resume diplomatic ties. But the violent regime in Tehran has prevented the resumption of ties. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State (biography) shares this message …
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 25 February, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa | Tags: Brian Hook, Embassy, Iran
Iranian authorities arrested and imprisoned at least 1.7 million of their own people in the Tehran area over the past four decades, and many were executed, a new report says.
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By Weblord | 11 February, 2019 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian
The United States today sanctioned an international network by which the Iranian regime and Russia are providing millions of barrels of oil to the Assad regime in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, and for onward transfer to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and …
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By Weblord | 20 November, 2018 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy, Press Releases | Tags: Assad, Hamas, Hizballah., Iran, Russia, sanctions
On July 14, 2015, the P5+1, the European Union (EU), and Iran reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful.
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By Weblord | 16 January, 2016 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: Iran, Iranian, JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity The Defense Department has confirmed the deaths of senior terrorist leaders in Libya and Somalia from recent U.S. airstrikes, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement today. Cook said a Nov. 13 U.S. airstrike in Libya killed Iraqi national Abu Nabil, also known as …
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By Weblord | 7 December, 2015 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy, Security & Counterterrorism | Tags: Abdirahman Sandhere, Abu Nabil, ISIL, Middle East, midest
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has grown since 2014, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today, and it is important that the United States and coalition partners continue to put pressure on the terror organization across all domains and with every facet of government. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph …
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By Weblord | 6 December, 2015 | Categories: Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: ISIL, Joseph Dunford, Middle Easy, midest
November 25, 2015 Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC Myth: All Syrian refugees are dangerous. Fact: 2,234 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States since October 1, 2010 (the beginning of fiscal year 2011), and only after the most extensive level of security screening of any category of traveler to …
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By IRC | 27 November, 2015 | Categories: Exclude, Fact Sheets, Near East & North Africa, News, Policy | Tags: fact sheet, Syrian refugees
The damage and looting of historic sites in Iraq and Syria are rapidly destroying all evidence of ancient life and society. Fragile sites and buildings have suffered as collateral damage to battles, targets for purposeful ideological destruction, and prey for systematic looting. More than 90 percent of Syria’s cultural sites are inside areas of …
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By Weblord | 24 September, 2014 | Categories: Art & Culture, Near East & North Africa, Policy | Tags: ancient monuments, Babylon, Cultural heritage, Emergency Red List, Erbil, Iraq, Persia