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The Republic of Kosovo issued Thursday a decree asking state institutions to add the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah to its list of individuals and entities involved in terrorist activities, subjecting them to restrictive measures in compliance with international obligations. Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci said that, as an active partner in...

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Trade between Germany and Iran has collapsed under the impact of extensive U.S. sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic to combat its illicit nuclear and non-nuclear activities, Reuters reported Friday. Data from the German Chamber of Commerce revealed that trade in the first quarter of 2019 was down 49 percent,...

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A senior Iranian official confirmed Tuesday that the Islamic Republic will “resolutely” abandon more commitments signed under the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers on July 7. Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said that European signatories had not done enough to salvage the deal. “As...

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Iran has hanged a former staff member of the Defense Ministry’s aerospace division on charges of spying for the CIA, the Associated Press reported Saturday. Iranian authorities confirmed an earlier report by the watchdog group Iran Human Rights (IRH) that said Seyyed Jamal Haji-Zavareh had been executed last week on...

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Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen killed one person and wounded seven in an attack on a Saudi Arabian civilian airport on Sunday evening – the second attack on the facility in just two weeks. Coalition spokesman Col Turki al-Maliki said the “terrorist attack” on Abha airport – about 70 miles...

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing new “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran, affecting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s financial resources, as well as targeting senior military officials and the country’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The goal of the new sanctions is to put pressure...

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