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West's unilateral sanctions impede Iran’s fight against drug trafficking: Envoy
Mar 08, 2021 13:30Iran’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna says unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran by Western countries, topped by the United States, are hampering the Islamic Republic’s fight against smuggling of illicit drugs.
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Nuclear deal standoff: Iran says US driving on wrong side of road
Mar 08, 2021 09:43Iran has touched on the unilateral US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Washington has been driving on the wrong side of the road and therefore it needs to make a U-turn to “a complete commitment, an effective implementation and then a return” to the deal.
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NATO’s expanding role hides the reality of a US empire in decline
Mar 08, 2021 06:57While a great deal of attention has been paid to the optics of unifying NATO under new, more inclusive American leadership, the harsh realities of the policy priorities pushed by Lloyd Austin, Biden’s Secretary of Defense, and their underlying economics, point to a weakened US looking to further exploit a European military alliance for the purposes of propping up an America in decline.
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Iran urges EU to drop threats, adopt mutual respect to resolve nuclear standoff
Mar 07, 2021 08:52President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the Europeans’ inaction toward reviving the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal, saying negotiations based on “mutual respect” and free from “threat and pressure” is the best means of resolving the current standoff.
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Shake off your ill will, Britain tells EU over post-Brexit trade
Mar 07, 2021 08:41The European Union should shake off its ill will and build a good relationship with Britain as sovereign equals, Britain’s top EU adviser David Frost said on Sunday, promising to stand up for the country’s interests.
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France slams EU members states for showing interest in Russian, Chinese vaccines
Mar 06, 2021 08:23A French cabinet minister has censured the European Union (EU) member states for showing interest in the Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines instead of the ones developed by the US and the UK.
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This obscure energy treaty is the greatest threat to the planet you’ve never heard of
Mar 05, 2021 16:58Investigate Europe revealed that the EU, the UK and Switzerland could be forced to pay more than €345bn in ECT lawsuits over climate action in the coming years. This amount, which is more than twice the EU’s annual budget, represents the total value of the fossil fuel infrastructure that is protected by the ECT, and was calculated using data gathered by Global Energy Monitor and Change of Oil International.
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Russia to slap tit-for-tat sanctions on US officials in spat over Navalny case
Mar 05, 2021 15:09Moscow says it will release a blacklist of American officials in the near future in retaliation for the sanctions recently imposed by Washington against Russian officials in the case of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
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Russia says ready to help revive Iran deal in its original form
Mar 05, 2021 14:39Russia’s FM says a window of opportunity for saving a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal signed between Iran and major world powers remains open, expressing hope that all sides will return to the full implementation of the agreement in its original form.
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Tehran sues European firms for aiding Saddam’s chemical attacks against Iranians: Judiciary
Mar 05, 2021 07:01The head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says Iran has filed lawsuits in international courts against several European companies that provided chemical materials to former Iraqi dictator Saddam’s regime, who used chemical weapons against Iranians in the 1980s war.