Tag: Iran

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:51 UTC

  Pompeo threatens Iran with “strongest sanctions in history”; Teheran says US was regressing to “old habits”

  

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the US is imposing the “strongest sanctions in history” on Iran. In a speech on Monday in Washington, America's top diplomat said Iran would be “battling to keep its economy alive” after the sanctions took effect.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Despite Trump, Europe, Russia and China committed to the Iran nuclear deal

  

  Western powers, Russia and China remain committed to the Iran nuclear deal - after the US announced it was withdrawing from the agreement. The UK, France and Germany say they “will work with all remaining parties” and urged the US not to obstruct its implementation and the other signatories to the 2015 deal - Russia and China - have also stressed their continuing support.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2018 - 07:10 UTC

  Latin American (and global) currencies hit by strong dollar and Trump's policies

  

  The dollar hovered near a four-month high on Tuesday, continuing to draw support from higher Treasury yields and upbeat prospects for the U.S. economy, leaving its major rivals such as the Euro struggling and other Latin American currencies including the Argentine peso down sharply.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  NRA elects ex Reagan aide involved in the Iran-Contra scandal

  

  The influential US gun lobby the National Rifle Association (NRA) has elected a former aide to President Ronald Reagan as its new president. Oliver North, a retired US Marine Colonel, played a major role in the so-called Iran-Contra scandal.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

  Oil rises to US$ 70 a barrel, ahead of Trump's Tuesday decision on sanctions to Iran

  

  Oil prices rose for the fourth straight day on Monday to hit levels not seen since late 2014, boosted by the latest trouble for Venezuelan oil company PDVSA and the possibility that the United States could re-impose sanctions on Iran.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Anti Iran coalition: Saudi crown prince touring the US moves closer to Israel

  

  Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 12:34 UTC

  Indictment and preventive imprisonment of Cristina Fernandez confirmed by federal court

  

  An Argentine Federal Court in Buenos Aires City confirmed the indictment and preventive imprisonment of ex president Cristina Fernandez, one of several defendants under investigation for the alleged cover up of the attack against a Jewish organization, by signing a memorandum of understanding with Teheran considered the culprit of the 1994 carnage which cost 85 lives and hundreds injured.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  Judge indicts Cristina Fernandez for treason and puts Timerman under house arrest

  

  A federal judge in Argentina indicted former President Cristina Fernandez for treason and asked for her arrest for allegedly covering up Iran’s possible role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people and injured hundreds, a court ruling said.

• Friday, September 22nd 2017 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentine prosecutor Nisman death, a homicide, according to toxicology report

  

  A new toxicology report on the body of Alberto Nisman, the late Argentine prosecutor, found that ketamine and clonazepam were in his blood at the time his death, Argentine federal criminal prosecutor Ricardo Saenz announced this week.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Trump threatens “rocket man” with total destruction; warnings to Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.