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More than 100 Congressmen recently signed a letter expressing their support and urging presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden to rejoin the nuclear deal, which, incidentally, Iran never signed.
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January, 2021
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8 January
Aircraft carrier Nimitz staying in Mideast as Iran raises uranium enrichment levels, seizes South Korean ship
Iran began enriching uranium Monday to levels unseen since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and also seized a South Korean-flagged tanker near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a double-barreled challenge to the West that further raised Mideast tensions.
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8 January
Trump directed Pentagon to reverse decision and keep aircraft carrier in Middle East amid Iran tensions
President Donald Trump directed acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller to reverse course and order a US aircraft carrier to return to the Middle East following a White House meeting Sunday, according to a senior defense official.
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8 January
Quds Force’s Deputy Discusses Iran’s Role and Relationship With Hezbollah
The deputy commander of the Quds Force has insisted that Iran does not interfere in foreign countries and has also spoken of Iran’s close ties with Hezbollah writes Al-Masdar.
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8 January
Students protest appointment of Erdogan loyalist to head top Turkish university
Students and faculty members decried infringements on academic independence during protests Monday after a member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was appointed by presidential decree to head one of the nation’s top universities.
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8 January
Humanitarian disaster looms over camps during winter
The lives of thousands of Syrian families in the Idlib camps lives turn into hell every year with the start of winter amid the lack of heating and rainwater drainage.
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8 January
US again sends B-52 bombers to deter Iran as tensions peak
The deployment is the third flight of nuclear-capable Stratofortresses to the region in less than two months Two American B-52 bombers flew over the Middle East on Wednesday in the latest show of force against Iran as tensions rise ahead of Sunday’s anniversary of the US assassination of Iranian Maj. …
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8 January
UN condemns Trump’s pardon of contractors involved in killing of Iraqis
A UN Human Rights Office expert said that the pardon of the men involved in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre undermines the obligation of states to hold war criminals accountable.
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8 January
Egypt denies plans to join states opening Western Sahara consulates
Cairo has denied Moroccan reports that Egypt plans to inaugurate a consulate in Western Sahara, which has been disputed for decades between Morocco and the Polisario Front backed by Algeria.
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8 January
Egypt works to alter Turkey’s Libya road map
The first official visit from Egypt to Libya’s internationally recognized Tripoli government aims to prevent a possible military push against strategic Sirte under the control of the rival group.
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