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Iran and Syria Discuss Bolstering Economic Relations and Trade

The Prime minister of Syria and the Speaker of the Islamic Shura Council of Iran discussed means of bolstering economic relations and trade between the two countries, according to SANA. Hussein Arnous, the caretaker Prime Minister, met on Wednesday with the Speaker of the Islamic Shura Council of Iran, Mohammad …

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Blinken: Talks About Return To Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Will Not Go On Indefinitely’

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday the negotiations on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “cannot and will not go on indefinitely,” signaling it’s up to Tehran to move forward soon on the issue. Blinken spoke Thursday in Kuwait during a news conference alongside his Kuwaiti counterpart, …

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Hardened US And Iranian Positions Question Efficacy Of Parties’ Negotiating Tactics – Analysis

The United States and Iran seem to be hardening their positions in advance of a resumption of negotiations to revive a 2015 international nuclear agreement once Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi takes office in early August. Concern among supporters of the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program which former US President …

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Iran’s Water Crisis Threatens The Regime – OpEd

Despite more than forty years of living under a rigid and repressive theocratic regime, Iranians are not people to take government failure or flagrant abuse of power lying down. Time and again they have demonstrated a willingness to stand up and be counted, defying the determined efforts of the state’s …

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Iran arrests Mossad agents plotting urban riots, terror; huge cache of weapons seized

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has arrested a network of agents with the Israeli Mossad spy agency at the Western borders, confiscating a large cache of weapons and ammunition that they were planning to use to provoke riots and terror inside the country. The ministry’s director-general for counterintelligence said on Tuesday that …

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Secret Iran hacking plans against West revealed – report

Five secret documents allegedly showing Iranian plans to hack infrastructure in Western countries, including in Europe, were publicized by Sky News on Monday. Five secret documents allegedly showing Iranian plans to hack infrastructure in Western countries, including in Europe, were publicized by Sky News late Monday night. Although there have …

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Iran claims it arrested Mossad agents, seized weapons

The ministry claimed that the alleged agents intended to use the weapons in order to carry out assassinations. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry claimed that it has arrested a network of Mossad agents and seized a heavy shipment of weapons and ammunition after they entered Iran through its western border, according to …

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Iran claims arrest of spy group linked to Israel’s Mossad

Iran’s state TV reported on Tuesday that authorities arrested members of a group linked to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency amid ongoing protests over water shortages in the country’s southwest. The report said “a network of spy agents, with a large amount of weapons and ammunition” was arrested after sneaking into …

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Iran: Raisi’s Impossible Task Of Fulfilling Economic Promises – OpEd

Iran’s incoming president Ebrahim Raisi, who will be sworn in on Aug. 5, has made many promises regarding economic issues — surpassing 50 in total so far. Although his electoral platform lacked any details clarifying how he would fulfill his promises, they still symbolize more than 50 problems and challenges …

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Iran: Raisi’s Impossible Task Of Fulfilling Economic Promises – OpEd

Why am I not surprised that it is an Israeli company producing the spyware Pegasus that enables government-based security agencies to infiltrate mobile phones clandestinely and gain access to private information, that normally one would not share with others! I would have expected China to produce a spyware software of …

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