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China's imports of Iranian oil hit record since 2018 sanctions
Jan 12, 2022 02:22China's imports of Iranian crude oil last year hit a record high since the US imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic in 2018 with the aim of bringing the country's oil sales down to zero, Bloomberg reports.
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The silence — or worse — of human rights hawks on US sanctions against Afghanistan
Jan 11, 2022 13:29Months after the US-backed Afghan government fell to the Taliban, ordinary Afghans now face what could be their direst winter in decades. Thanks to the economic collapse that accompanied the U.S. military withdrawal, coupled with the imposition of sanctions and the cessation of much humanitarian aid, millions of Afghans must contend with the very real prospect of starvation.
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Iran: Good agreement possible if West shows goodwill
Jan 09, 2022 03:48Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says reaching a good agreement is possible in the ongoing sanctions removal talks in Vienna, if the Western side possesses the required goodwill.
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Iran being paid for crude exports, shipments rising: NIOC chief
Jan 09, 2022 03:31Iran has seen its oil exports steadily increase in recent months while it has been able to recoup revenues despite sanctions imposed by the United States on both the sales and on banking transactions meant to settle payments, says a top Oil Ministry official.
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Iran, P4+1 countries are resolving outstanding issues in Vienna talks: Iranian top negotiator
Jan 09, 2022 03:24Iran's chief negotiator to the Vienna talks says Iran and the five remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement are resolving the outstanding issues as diplomatic efforts are continuing in the Austrian capital to secure the removal of all sanctions that the United States has imposed on Tehran following its unilateral withdrawal from the deal three years after its conclusion.
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S. Korea must release Iran’s frozen assets regardless of Vienna talks outcome: Deputy FM
Jan 06, 2022 11:19Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri-Kani said it is South Korea’s duty to release Iran’s illegally frozen assets regardless of the result of the ongoing negotiations in Vienna on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Vienna talks positive, forward-moving: Iran’s chief negotiator
Jan 06, 2022 03:24Tehran’s chief negotiator says the talks with the P4+1 group of countries in Vienna, Austria on the removal of sanctions the United States imposed on Iran after its unilateral withdrawal from the landmark 2015 agreement are “positive and forward-moving.”
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South Korean team in Vienna for talks on debt to Iran
Jan 05, 2022 09:00South Korea says it has sent a delegation to Vienna to hold talks with Iran and other countries over how to resolve the issue of frozen Iranian assets held in the Asian country.
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Iran, P4+1 continue sanctions removal talks in Vienna
Jan 04, 2022 17:43Iran and the remaining signatories to the 2015 deal are continuing their diplomatic efforts in the Austrian capital of Vienna aimed at securing a removal of the United States sanctions on Tehran and reviving the agreement that was abandoned by Washington.
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Iran says Western parties to 2015 deal became realistic, backed down from ‘maximalist demands’
Jan 03, 2022 08:50The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the western parties to the 2015 deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have realized that they have to back down from their “maximalist demands” during the ongoing negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna.