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 ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...
A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...
A letter from the Texas state attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity before it has really even got going. In a three-page letter sent to the seven power conference universities in Texas, Ken Paxton implores the schools not to sign the College Sports ...
Mohammed Ibrahim was 15 when he was arrested at his family's holiday home in the occupied West Bank/ A Palestinian-American teenager is expected to appear in court in Israel later this week after nine months in detention without being charged. Mohammed Ibrahim, who is 16 and lives in Florida, ...
This photo combination of images provided by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office shows from top left, Michael Lawton, Melody Bangs, Tonda Michelin, and Dale Moser. (Greenville County Sheriff's Office via AP)/ CLEVELAND, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday found a grandmother and three ...
Zeynab Javadli divorced Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2019/ The former wife of a member of Dubai's ruling family has expressed concern that she could be arrested as her ex-husband has lodged a criminal complaint with local police, accusing her of kidnapping their three young ...
There are plenty of reason you might feel off in the late afternoon and evening. Maybe you’re mentally wiped after socializing all day, or your brain is fried from hours of work. If you got up early, it could simply be that you’d rather crawl under a blanket and watch Netflix than interact with ...
Members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad were pictured searching for a hostage's body in central Gaza on Friday/ Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas have handed over to the Red Cross a coffin which the armed groups say contains the body of one of the last three deceased hostages still in Gaza, ...
An iconic Popemobile belonging to the late Pope Francis has been turned into a mobile medical clinic for children in the war-torn Gaza Strip. Aid workers say it has a practical purpose and also serves as a symbol of goodwill. The BBC's Middle East Correspondent, Yolande Knell, went to Bethlehem ...