PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - France has proposed offering Iran about $15 billion in credit lines until year-end if Tehran comes fully back into compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal, a move that hinges on Washington not blocking it, Western and Iranian sources said./ FILE PHOTO: French President ...
Washington issued strong protests last month when authorities in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar released an Iranian supertanker they had detained for six weeks on suspicion of sanctions-busting (AFP Photo/JORGE GUERRERO)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Wednesday it will resume full ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he will not meet with the U.S. until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted; Trey Yingst reports from Jerusalem./ continues to up the ante on its nuclear program, reportedly beyond the limitations outlined in the contentious 2015 , Iranian President ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - France has proposed offering Iran about $15 billion in credit lines until year-end if Tehran comes fully back into compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal, a move that hinges on Washington not blocking it, Western and Iranian sources said. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Hassan Rouhani has said he is ready for dialogue if the US first lifts its sanctions Iran's president has ruled out ever holding bilateral talks with the US. "There have been a lot of offers for talks but our answer will always be ...
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei (AFP Photo/str)/ Paris (France) (AFP) - Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President ...
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei (AFP Photo/str)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President Hassan ...
20AM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 07:25AM ]/ A senior Iranian official says Tehran will return into full compliance with a 2015 multinational nuclear deal only if it receives $15 billion in a France-proposed credit lines for oil sales over four months otherwise the Islamic Republic will continue ...
43PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 10:43PM ]/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reacts during a news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad ...
20PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 03:34PM ]/ France says efforts aimed at saving a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal on the Iranian nuclear program hinges on the United States’ provision of waivers from the sanctions it has unilaterally and illegally re-imposed on Tehran. “That all supposes of course ...
Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi attends a meeting on the 2015 nuclear deal in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on June 28, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iranian and French experts have held intensive talks aimed at salvaging an international nuclear deal, which has been at risk of unraveling ...
05AM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 05:05AM ]/ Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in the Russian capital while his deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi was in Paris in a last-minute push to preserve the 2015 nuclear agreement amid US sanctions and the Europeans’ failure to fulfill ...
The US removed all its bombers from the UK's RAF Fairford base last month after a major incident in September that police described as "suspicious"/ The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced charges against three Iran-backed operatives that it alleges were involved in a string of plots in ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...
Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked to the ground by a group of settlers and kicked repeatedly/ Israeli police say they have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank after attacks by settlers on an American journalist and European diplomats last week. The unnamed suspects were ...
One of the main suppliers of food aid to the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), says that it is being forced to "drastically reduce lifesaving assistance" to the Palestinian territory due to funding shortages. Overall, the number of people helped by the UN agency will drop by about a ...