Financial Times | Iran to sign $4.8bn gas deal with Total Financial Times A consortium led by France's Total is set to sign a multi-billion-dollar gas deal with Iran, the Islamic republic's first major energy contract with a European oil company in more than a decade as transatlantic differences over relations with the ... French Energy Giant to Invest $1 Billion on Iran Gas Field Iran to sign gas deal with France's Total and China's CNPC Total to sign $4.8-billion gas deal with Iran |
The Guardian | British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran in state of 'despair' The Guardian A British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail sentence in Tehran on unspecified charges relating to national security is losing her hair and experiencing “low and despairing” moods as her incarceration lasts far beyond her family's expectation ... |
New York Times | How Iran Recruited Afghan Refugees to Fight Assad's War New York Times Millions of Afghans came of age in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran or as workers in the Persian Gulf nations. The migration continues. The past few years have added a new lethal geography to the Afghan diaspora: the battlefields of President Bashar ... |
Salon | Iran and the Saudi deflection campaign Salon The net effect of Donald Trump's sycophantic support of Riyadh is that it absolves the Saudis of any of their own responsibility for terror. The Saudi attempt to pin all the blame on Iran, and point to Qatar as its supposed chief subcontractor, flies ... Turkey's power-play in Qatar leads to warmer relations with Iran Is the Saudi Boycott of Qatar Driving It into the Arms of Iran? |
CBS News | US, allies disagree about Iran's nuke deal compliance CBS News UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations and the European Union praised Iran on Thursday for implementing the landmark nuclear deal with six major powers, but U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused Tehran of "destructive and destabilizing" actions from ... IAEA: Iran Complying with Nuclear Deal Security Council updated on status of resolution on Iran's nuclear programme |
CNSNews.com | John Bolton at 'Free Iran' Rally: 1979 Revolution Should Not Reach 40th Birthday CNSNews.com Paris (CNSNews.com) – The outcome of the Trump administration's review of Iran policy should be that the Islamic revolution ushered in under the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini should not reach its 40th birthday in two years' time, former U.S ... US reps. slam Iran nuclear deal at Tehran regime opponents' summit Trump's sober view of Iranian theocracy lends energy to dissident rally in France Turki al-Faisal: Iran is the greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world |
The Times of Israel | Bennett: We won't allow Iran to establish land corridor to Syria The Times of Israel Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Israel will not allow Iran to establish a land corridor to Lebanon and Syria by way of Iraq, which the Islamic Republic is seeking to use to shore up its supply lines to its Syrian and Lebanese proxies. Lieberman: Israel 'Doing What Needs to Be Done' About Iran's Underground Arms Plants in Lebanon |
NRT | The growing partnership between Turkey and Iran NRT Iran and Turkey, the two non-Arab Middle Eastern states, are among the largest and most populous in the region. The former occupies a strategic location on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz; while the latter controls the Straits, the Bosporus ... |
Haaretz | Domestic Clashes Undermine Iran, but Its Regional Status Is Unaffected Haaretz Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei scored big laughs last month when he venomously mocked President Hassan Rohani at a major conference in Tehran. “The president spoke at length about the economic situation and the fact that this and that ... |
Bloomberg | India Gives Iran $11 Billion 'Best Offer' on Farzad-B Gas Field Bloomberg An Indian consortium is willing to spend as much as $11 billion to develop a giant Iranian natural gas field and build the infrastructure to export the fuel as long as the Persian Gulf nation guarantees a “reasonable return” on the project, according ... |