Iran

In a preview of an interview that will air in its entirety on “60 Minutes” this coming Sunday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told correspondent Norah O’Donnell that if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would “follow suit as soon as possible.” The preview was broadcast...

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If President Donald Trump follows through on his intent to either fix the weaknesses in the nuclear deal or withdraw from the accord, it would mean that “Mr. Trump will be better positioned to make it clear to Pyongyang that he means business,” two sanctions experts wrote in an op-ed published...

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Due to “poor policy choices” in the Middle East, “Iran is winning,” meaning that the United States needs a “clear and coherent strategy to push back” a leading foreign policy voice in the United States Senate wrote Monday in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. Describing his recent trip to...

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The BBC will appeal to the United Nations in Geneva to protect its staff and their families in Iran as authorities in the Islamic Republic escalate “years of persecution and harassment,” Agence France-Presse reported Monday. BBC Director-General, Tony Hall, said in a statement on Monday that journalists will describe in...

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Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, Tehran’s top prosecutor, announced that the Iranian regime had sentenced a British national to a six-year term in prison for espionage, The Guardian reported Sunday. Jafari-Dolatabadi told the Mizan news agency, which is affiliated with the judiciary, that the dual British-Iranian citizen was sentenced as an “agent of...

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Last month Iran’s Justice Minister Alireza Avaei was afforded a platform at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), and Avaei is under an EU travel ban for human rights violations. In the 1980s, Avaei, like his predecessor, Mostafa...

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