Middle East
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UNSC president: US snapback bid not effective
Indonesian Ambassador to UN and the current president of the UN Security Council, Dian Triansyah Djani, said on Tuesday the Security Council was “not in the position to take further action” on the US snapback bid against Iran.
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Pompeo to visit Israel and UAE with peace, Iran and China on agenda, sources say
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries’ normalisation deal, two sources briefed on his itinerary said.
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U.S must enter into negotiations with Iran as an equal partner; U.S professor
“The Iran–China agreement would make the Middle East a more tense security environment and it may very well actually increase the risk of military confrontation between Tehran and Washington,” the U.S professor told ILNA.
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U.S and Israeli worry about Iran's influence in Middle East: ex-diplomat
A former Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the US and Israeli officials are concerned about Iran's influence in the Middle East.
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U.S has no right to intervene in Iran’s commercial relations with Venezuela; Expert
“Iran founds herself in a more and more difficult situation because of mostly USA illegal sanctions and the very heavy impacts of the coronavirus pandemic,” a political science professor at Tampere University Tuomo Melasuo said.
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To pressure Iran, Pompeo to push for extension of Iran arms embargo
"Donald Trump's narrow reason for US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal [JCPOA] is his hatred of any achievement of President Barack Obama,” a Political science professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies told ILNA.
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U.S expert predicts “there will be more violent” If Trump wins reelection
A US political science professor told ILNA news agency that Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) certainly looks dead in a Trump presidency and he is unlikely to reverse his “maximum pressure” campaign this year, meaning sanctions will not be lifted.
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Bankrupt state like the US has no stomach for war; Expert
An associate professor at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore believes that COVID-19 shows how weak, backward and out of touch a leader like Trump can be.
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UAE's has softened its policy toward Iran; official
The head of the Iran-UAE Joint Chamber of Commerce, Farshid Farzanegan told Sunday that relation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Arab Emirates has improved and UAE officials have softened their stance on Iran.
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No significant domestic pressure on US to ease sanctions; Expert
“Iran’s fate with the sanctions is precarious because of its economy is damaged by the sanctions,” a Professor of Political Science and Director of Security Studies says ILNA.