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 ...
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 ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest/ Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. A ...