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Iran launching global saffron exporting bloc to increase trade share
Dec 22, 2019 03:27Iranian saffron exporters are mulling an international bloc of countries involved in the trade of the red gold as they become increasingly irritated with the European monopoly over benchmarking and standardization processes that exist in the field.
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Tragedies of the Afghan war
Dec 20, 2019 15:37Previously classified memos dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” containing 2,000 pages of interviews with senior US officials and others directly involved in the war effort have now revealed how public perceptions on the war were constructed and fed to the American people in a bid to hide the dark side of this misadventure.
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The Afghanistan war is more than a $1 trillion mistake; It's a travesty
Dec 20, 2019 15:22“The United States has so far doled out nearly one trillion dollars for the war in Afghanistan (the true cost of the war will be trillions more) and everyone’s on the take: from defense industry executives, lobbyists and US political campaign coffers to poppy farmers to anyone and anything in between”, says Ben Armbruster, the managing editor of ResponsibleStatecraft.org, the news and analysis publishing platform of the Quincy Institute. This article has been published in the Guardian.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan jolted by strong 6.1-magnitude quake: USGS
Dec 20, 2019 10:48A strong earthquake has rattled Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US Geological Survey said, forcing residents into the streets in Kabul and Islamabad.
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Iran opposes US-Taliban talks, rejects claim of sending arms to militant group
Dec 19, 2019 03:38Iran’s top security official has rejected US claims that it is providing weapons to the Taliban in order to fight the US influence in Afghanistan.
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Iran, Russia warn about Daesh relocation from West Asia to Afghanistan
Dec 18, 2019 08:01Security chiefs of Iran and Russia have warned about the deliberate relocation of remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terror group from their former bastions in West Asia to Afghanistan.
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Russia defends Iran’s legal right to benefit from nuclear deal
Dec 18, 2019 07:37Russia’s top security official has defended Iran’s legal right to reap benefits from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, reminding the other signatories of their “unavoidable” responsibility to meet their end of the bargain.
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Bomb kills 10 members of same family in southeast Afghanistan
Dec 17, 2019 05:25Ten members of the same family have been killed after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Khost.
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The Afghanistan papers confirm America's longest war is a lie
Dec 16, 2019 13:17“The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers, detailing a true history of the nation’s longest official war, reveals nothing new about the war’s futility or about the fact that it was doomed to failure from almost the beginning”, says Sonali Kolhatkar, a columnist for Truthdig website under the heading: “The Afghanistan papers confirm America's longest war is a lie. “
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ICC holds hearing on Afghanistan war crimes, including US torture
Dec 15, 2019 08:00The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a three-day hearing in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday at which prosecutors and Afghan torture victims are attempting to convince the court to overturn a previous decision to refuse to investigate war crimes committed by Taliban and US forces.