Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that he believes there is only one solution for the “problem” that is Israel: “Israel’s annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn’t mean destroying Jews in this region,” he said in his speech, which was posted on his website [Persian...

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The Wall Street Journal on Monday conveyed reports that Tehran has for the past six months exported a record amount of crude oil to China, which the outlet noted comes “amid a loosening of U.S. sanctions” as Iran negotiates with the P5+1 powers – including Beijing – over its nuclear...

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The Wall Street Journal on Friday afternoon announced that Iran and the P5+1 global powers had reached an agreement to extend through late November talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) was set to expire July 20, amid increasing speculation that talks would be extended as a...

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The Jerusalem Post cited reports Monday that the Israeli military struck a Sudanese weapons stockpile last week. Sources in Khartoum claimed on Monday that Israeli forces struck a weapons arsenal which held long range missiles for Hamas. The Arabic-language UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the government in Sudan is not confirming...

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The State Department on Thursday denied claims, published earlier that day in Al Monitor’s Congress Pulse, that Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of lawmakers earlier that day that new sanctions on Iran could trigger a breakthrough in nuclear talks between Tehran and the West: US Secretary of...

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Journalists on Wednesday pressed White House and State Department spokespeople on a set of commitments – made months ago to lawmakers and reporters – in which top administration officials defended nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that if talks failed they would cooperate with Congress in imposing new sanctions on...

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Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday told reporters in Vienna that “very real gaps” remain between Iran and the P5+1 global powers as the parties work to reach an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of the July 20 expiry of the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Kerry,...

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The Daily Beast on Monday assessed that the easing of sanctions on Tehran, as reported in a newly released study by Roubini Global Economics and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), has allowed the Iranian economy to begin to recover, “undercutting Western leverage” ahead of the July 20 deadline...

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The seventh day of Operation Protective Edge is over. The southern port city of Eilat was attacked with rockets late Monday; one man was lightly injured. To the north, Israel retaliated against rocket fire from Lebanon. The Jerusalem Post reports: A rocket fired from Lebanon landed on Monday night in...

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The Wall Street Journal on Friday conveyed and confirmed figures – first aired a few weeks ago – indicating that Iranian crude oil exports had exceeded for the eighth month in a row restrictions imposed by the Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Still, Iranian crude exports—excluding condensates—stood at around 1.1 million...

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