Iran
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World
China’s Economic Stake in the Middle East: Its Thirst for Oil
China is the largest oil importer by far from Saudi Arabia and from Iran, highlighting the risk it faces if…
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Finance
Yellen Says Nothing Is ‘Off the Table’ as U.S. Considers New Sanctions on Iran and Hamas
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Wednesday that the Israel-Gaza war represents a new concern for the global economy…
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World
Oil Prices Were Going Down Again. Then War Started in the Middle East.
After a surge this summer when oil prices approached $100 a barrel, the cost of crude was tumbling again. Now…
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World
Trump’s Claim that U.S. Taxpayer Money Funded Hamas Attacks Is False
WHAT WAS SAID “Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden…
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US
Biden’s Hopes for the Middle East Imperiled by Eruption of Violence
The Hamas attack on Israel could narrow the chances for the president’s efforts to negotiate a new alignment in the…
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World
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Rights Activist, Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Ms. Mohammadi, currently held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has pushed for peaceful change in Iran for 30 years, with…
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World
U.S. Sent Munitions Seized From Iran to Ukraine
The U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement on Wednesday that earlier this week it had transferred about 1.1…
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World
With Iranian Girl in Coma, Suspicion Falls on Government
Exactly what happened to 16-year-old Armita Geravand is unclear, but the circumstances have fueled accusations that Iran’s morality police must…
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News
Iran’s Captive Minds
In June 2014, Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai wrote an article in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, making the…
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World
What to Know About Key Nations Seeking to Join BRICS
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Indonesia and Egypt are among the potential candidates to expand the five-nation bloc, many of them seeking…