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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in New York on September 26, 2018,on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)
Iran’s Rouhani says US has ‘failed to stop oil exports’
By TOI staff and AP
President vows his country will not yield to Washington’s ‘psychological war’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in New York on September 26, 2018,on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)
November 19, 2018, 2:58 pm
Iran’s Rouhani says US has ‘failed to stop oil exports’
President vows his country will not yield to Washington’s ‘psychological war’
By TOI staff and AP
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London on November 14, 2018. ( Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
November 19, 2018, 4:04 am
British foreign minister visits Iran for nuclear talks
Jeremy Hunt’s trip is first by a Western foreign minister since the US withdrew from the nuclear deal
By AFP
Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani shake hands during an official welcome ceremony for Salih at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, November 17, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
November 17, 2018, 2:04 pm
Iraq’s president visits Iran weeks after US renews sanctions
Tehran hoping to maintain billions of dollars in oil exports to its neighbor by establishing free trade zones along border
By AP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in New York on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)
November 14, 2018, 1:37 pm
Rouhani: US will be defeated after ‘wrong path’ with sanctions
Iranian president says economic pressure will not lead to regional security
By TOI staff and AFP
US National security adviser John Bolton gestures while speaking to the media during a news briefing following his meetings with Georgian officials in Tbilisi, Georgia, October 26, 2018. (Shakh Aivazov/AP)
November 13, 2018, 10:40 am
US security chief Bolton vows to ‘squeeze’ Iran
Adviser says Tehran is under ‘significant pressure,’ declares Trump administration will ‘significantly increase the enforcement of sanctions’
By AFP
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, June 4, 2018. (Ronald Zak/AP)
November 12, 2018, 6:05 pm
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran remains within 2015 deal limits
In quarterly report, IAEA says Tehran abiding by limits on atomic activity, providing access to all sites and ‘timely and proactive cooperation’
By KIYOKO METZLER
In this July 2, 2012, photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in the background (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 12, 2018, 1:32 pm
Iranian official says military ready to protect oil tankers from ‘any threats’
Commander declares efforts to isolate Tehran by choking off oil and shipping industries ‘not acceptable’ after US warns ports and insurance companies not to work with Iranian ships
By TOI staff and Agencies
Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (photo credit: CC BY-SA Eli Itkin/Wikimedia Commons)
November 11, 2018, 10:11 am
Ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy joins controversial Israeli spy firm Black Cube
Company linked to efforts to target former senior White House officials, accusers of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
By TOI staff
People take photos of Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to the scene of the massive fire in Grenfell Tower, in rear, in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017. (AP/Alastair Grant)
November 11, 2018, 4:30 am
Could Iranian election meddling help Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street?
A future Labour government could reorient Britain’s Middle East policy towards Tehran and away from Israel and the Gulf states
By Robert Philpot
Part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran, September 4, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
November 8, 2018, 2:40 pm
Iran oil minister says US waivers not enough, consumer pain coming
Bijan Zanganeh warns 8 countries granted exemptions can’t meet market demands, says Trump administration may have ‘superficially’ brought fuel prices down but hikes will come
By AP
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appearing in a YouTube video on November 6, 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)
November 6, 2018, 4:13 pm
Iran says US will ‘regret’ renewed sanctions, vows Tehran won’t cave to pressure
Maintaining defiant posture, Iranian FM calls Washington’s demands of the Islamic Republic ‘absurd,’ also alleges ‘appalling atrocities’ by Israel, Saudi Arabia
By Agencies
People withraw money from an automated teller machine in the Iranian capital Tehran's grand bazaar on November 3, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
November 6, 2018, 12:26 am
Iranians fear more economic pain as US sanctions kick in
Costs of medicines, food, transportation, clothing skyrocket as rial tumbles
By Nasser Karimi and MEHDI FATTAHI
An Iranian checks various currency rates at an exchange shop window in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 5, 2018. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
November 6, 2018, 12:25 am
Will renewed sanctions force Iran to buckle? Ask after midterm results are in
Analysts say Tehran is unlikely to cave quickly, will hope for a new US administration in 2020; a blue wave during Tuesday’s midterms may give it enough hope to hold out
By Raphael Ahren
Iranian protesters demonstrate outside the former US Embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 4, 2018, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
November 5, 2018, 7:34 pm
Iran urges UN to take action against Washington, as sanctions restart
Tehran urges world to hold Trump administration accountable for ‘irresponsible conduct,’ but diplomats say no plans to raise US pullout from nuclear deal in Security Council
By AFP
Iranians walk past a bank in the capital Tehran on November 3, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
November 5, 2018, 5:42 pm
SWIFT network suspends Iran banks as US sanctions take force
Brussels-based system says ‘regrettable’ step ‘taken in the interest of the stability and integrity of the wider global financial system’
By AFP
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