Federal prosecutors recently announced that the U.S. is pursuing prosecution of a supposed foreign relations expert who spent more than 12 years operating as an unregistered agent of the Iranian regime.
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India hopes to import more Iranian Crude
India hopes it could diversify its oil suppliers under the new U.S. Administration that could relax restrictions on oil exports from Iran and Venezuela, India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told Bloomberg TV in an interview.
President Rouhani inaugurates major gas refinery in SW
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the Persian Gulf Bid Boland Gas Refinery in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
KSC remains Iran’s biggest steel exporter in 9 Months
With the export of 1.1 million tons of slab, bloom and billet during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (March. 20-Dec. 20), Khouzestan Steel Company remained Iran’s biggest exporter of steel.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry willing to contribute to joint projects with Armenia
Artashes Tumanian, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Islamic Republic of Iran was received by Seyed Rasool Mohajer, Deputy Foreign Minister on Economic Diplomacy, the Armenian Embassy in Iran informs.
Iranian MP says government takes advantage of stock market
Iran’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament said yesterday that the government had taken advantage of the country’s stock market which has been mostly in the red for the past few days.
Tehran hosts 14th Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Economic Committee meeting
The two sides inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the expansion of economic cooperation at the end of the meeting.
India strengthens joint use of Chabahar port and supplies 2 mobile harbour cranes to Iran
India sent a consignment of two Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHC) to Iran’s strategically located Chabahar port to enable seamless cargo handling services, the Ministry of Shipping said on Wed.
Why Iranians do not trust the Ayatollahs
While the Iranian government has been surrounded by enormous crises and dilemmas inside the country and abroad, officials inevitably make damning confessions. In recent days, officials from both factions of the establishment have admitted to massive distrust toward the ruing system among citizens. Their remarks, however, reveal the officials’ illegitimacy and instability.
Iran expands its sphere of influence with Iraqi energy deals
Iraq announced two deals with countries that Iran hopes can be gradually moved further into its sphere of influence. One of the two, Lebanon, is already seen by Tehran as a key player in the Shia crescent of power that it has been meticulously developing for years – as a counterpoint to the U.S.’s own sphere of influence centred on Saudi Arabia – that stretches from Syria and Lebanon through Iraq and Iran and then south into Yemen.
Ontario men accused of shipping highly sophisticated U.S. equipment to Iran against sanctions
Two Iranian men living in Canada are accused by U.S. authorities of buying “highly sophisticated” manufacturing and transportation equipment and secretly shipping it to Iran to circumvent strict sanctions.
