These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Adrian Darya 1 left Gibraltar in August, despite a last-minute US effort to keep it detained The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a ...
In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Rouhani reiterated a threat that Tehran would take additional steps away from the 2015 nuclear accord on Friday and accelerate its ...
A crew member checks the new name of Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar in August 2019/ A crew member checks the new name of Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar in August 2019 (AFP Photo/Johnny ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday blacklisted an “oil for terror” network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for supplying Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of U.S. sanctions. ...
Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in July. The Treasury Department placed sanctions on individuals and entities affiliated with the corps’s Quds Force./ WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an elaborate shipping network that Iran ...
U.S. Treasury is nothing more than a 'jail warden'/ FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks during a news conference with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/ DUBAI (Reuters) - ...
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact./ Iranian President Hassan ...
The United States will pay people up to $15 million for information that disrupts the finances of an elite Iranian military force, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. The reward program — unusual in that it targets a foreign state entity — is the latest of many moves the U.S. has taken ...
Satellite image shows failed Iranian rocket launch at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Semnan, Iran (AFP Photo/Handout)/ Washington (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Iran's space program, saying that a recent explosion on a launch pad was a sign of missile work. "The ...
This satellite image from Planet Labs Inc., that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan province, Thursday Aug. ...
Iran's top diplomat issued his latest condemnation of the United States as President Donald Trump's administration resorted to offering cash to sailors in exchange for exposing the Islamic Republic's activities. published a report Wednesday quoting an alleged August 26 email from U.S. special ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned an “oil for terror” network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that supplied Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of U.S. sanctions./ FILE PHOTO: ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walks to a working breakfast at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned a sprawling network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by ...
State Department said technologies used to launch rockets are virtually identical to those used to test ballistic missiles/ WASHINGTON—The State Department imposed sanctions against Iran’s space program on Tuesday following a failed attempt to launch a rocket last week, which the U.S. suspects ...
TV/ DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Wednesday as “ineffective” U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran’s civilian space agency and two research organisations for allegedly being used to advance the country’s disputed ballistic missile programme. “Americans are addicted to sanctions. These sanctions ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on the three Iranian space agencies on Tuesday, the Treasury Department said, as Washington ramps up pressure over Tehran’s nuclear program. Treasury targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics ...
47PM [Updated: Thu Sep 5, 2019 12:50PM ]/ Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has taken to task the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as the main force behind imposition of Washington’s sanctions against Tehran, saying that it only serves the role of a jail warden ...
34AM [Updated: Thu Sep 5, 2019 12:35AM ]/ Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned the latest moves and comments by the US administration, especially its Iran representative Brian Hook, to increase pressure against the Iranian nation as part of an "economic terrorism campaign." ...
06PM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 06:16PM ]/ Iran has decided the next measures in the third stage of its response to the violation of the 2015 nuclear deal by the United States. (File photo)/ Iran has decided the next steps in the third stage of its response to the violation of the 2015 nuclear ...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a US policy of enticing and threatening is becoming a pattern, as reports emerged that Washington had sought to blackmail the captain of an Iranian-operated tanker to receive bribe for the vessel or face sanctions. “Having failed at piracy, the ...
20PM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 05:21PM ]/ The United States has imposed sanctions on an Iranian shipping network – several tankers, companies and insurance firms -- accusing it of supplying millions of barrels of oil to Syria. The US Treasury Department announced the illegal sanctions on ...
10PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 08:10PM ]/ The United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran this time to target its space program. The administration of US President Donald Trump introduced the illegal sanctions Tuesday as Washington continued its campaign of “maximum pressure” against Tehran ...
Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi, survived physical and sexual violence by IS/ In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year old daughter. Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic ...
The mother of the only British-Israeli hostage being held by Hamas has described her increasing fears for her daughter's life after more than 400 days in captivity. Emily Damari, 28, was taken by Hamas from her home in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. “I fear that she's dead," her mother Mandy ...
Abdulkafi in front of the Aleppo Citadel, in the heart of the Syrian city/ Abdulkafi, an English teacher from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, saw his father for the first time in 20 years on Monday. “He is 85, an old man. He never dreamed he would see me again before he died,” Abdulkafi told ...
Israeli soldiers on patrol in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. Photo: 2 December 2024/ Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week's ...
Rihab Faour at her temporary home in Beirut. ‘I have to find something to fill my days,’ she said/ Rihab Faour fled her home. Then she fled again. Then a third time. Then a fourth. And by the fourth time, a year after the first, she had been fleeing Israeli bombs for so long that nowhere in ...
The reignited war in Syria is the latest fallout from the turmoil that has gripped the Middle East since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October last year. The attacks, and Israel’s response, upended the status quo. Events in Syria in the last few days are more proof that the war gripping the ...
The biggest UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns. The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two recent convoys had been looted by armed gangs near the Kerem Shalom crossing ...
Syrian government forces have withdrawn from the city of Aleppo following an offensive by rebels opposed to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. The army acknowledged that rebels had entered "large parts" of the city, the country's second largest, but vowed to stage a counterattack. The ...
The wreckage of a car seen following an Israeli strike in southern Gaza/ The charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said it is pausing its operations in Gaza after a vehicle carrying its staff members was hit by an Israeli air strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the target of the ...
The crater left behind by the massive Israeli air strike that killed Hassan Nasrallah was lit up in red for the event/ Thousands of people have descended on the site where former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli air strike, after the group allowed access to the area for ...