Iran is threatening to ban all iPhones unless Apple officially registers a store in the country, The Japan Times reported on Tuesday, citing Iranian media. Under the guise of an anti-smuggling effort, Iran would require the tech giant and other smartphone manufacturers to register in a national telecommunications user database. The effort...

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Iran’s foreign minister called his country’s ability to restore its uranium enrichment program after the tenth year of the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year a “matter of pride,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s comments came in response to a report published Monday by the AP about a secret add-on to...

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The family of a British-Iranian woman who was arrested in Tehran earlier this year was told to pressure the British government “to reach an agreement” in order to close her case before trial, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was visiting family in Iran with her toddler, was detained at Tehran’s airport in...

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Fourteen Democratic senators introduced legislation last week calling for an extension of existing sanctions on Iran, which are set to expire at the end of this year. Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) are leading the push for renewing the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996,...

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Iran is broadening its search for aircraft as its proposed deals with Airbus and Boeing continue to face significant obstacles, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Iran is planning to buy some 50 more airplanes of various types soon,” an Iranian official told the news agency. Iranian executives said they attended the U.K.’s Farnborough International Airshow last week and...

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Iranian hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are “gaining authority” in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Monday. “Khamenei’s allies control the bulk of financial resources as well as the judiciary, the security forces, public broadcasters and the Guardian Council which vets laws and...

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Iran test-fired a new kind of ballistic missile using North Korean technology on the night of July 11-12, Fox News reported on Friday, citing multiple intelligence officials. The latest test, the ninth Iran carried out since it reached a nuclear deal with global powers last year, was held two days before the one-year anniversary of...

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Fifteen Democratic senators who originally supported the nuclear deal with Iran have written a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing the deal’s inspection procedures, Politico reported Friday. The group, led by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), called on Obama to pressure the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which performs inspections on suspected Iranian nuclear sites,...

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The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday that would prohibit the United States from buying Iranian “heavy water,” which can be used to produce weaponizable nuclear material. The “No 2H2O from Iran Act” passed 249-176 with both Republican and Democratic support. The U.S. government confirmed Monday that it paid Iran $8.6...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that his country is capable of fully restoring its nuclear program if the nuclear deal falls apart. If the global negotiating powers refuse to fulfill their commitments, Iran “will be completely prepared, and, in terms of nuclear capabilities, we are at such a level so as...

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