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Trump Concedes to Temporarily End Shutdown, Without Wall Funding

EghtesadOnline: US President Donald Trump conceded Friday to mounting pressure that he reopen the federal government, agreeing to a temporary funding measure that would allow federal employees to return to work but that does not include the billions of dollars in border wall funding he's spent the past month demanding.
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Publish Date:27/January/2019 | 14:25

Kim Ready to Meet Trump

EghtesadOnline: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has renewed his commitment to denuclearization but warned that he may have no option but to seek an alternative course if the United States does not take corresponding measures and maintains sanctions.
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Publish Date:02/January/2019 | 13:09

Trump Temper Tantrum Takes Toll

EghtesadOnline: The presidency of Donald Trump has lurched from crisis to crisis since he took office less than two years ago, but Thursday was a landmark day of chaos that appeared to test the resolve of even senior Republican backers in Washington.
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Publish Date:22/December/2018 | 15:18

Senators Defy Trump On Two Key Issues

EghtesadOnline: A slim majority of senators voted Thursday to end US support for a Saudi Arabian military campaign in Yemen that has been blamed for tens of thousands of deaths and mass starvation. The vote provides the biggest rebuke yet of a three-year U.S. policy that the Trump administration says it has no plans to end.
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Publish Date:15/December/2018 | 10:45

Rex Tillerson Exposes Trump 's Greatest Weakness

EghtesadOnline: Since being fired by President Donald Trump as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson has kept a very low profile. But on Thursday night in Houston, Tillerson broke that silence in a big way.
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Publish Date:09/December/2018 | 11:56

Currency, Gold Post Weekly Decline in Iran

EghtesadOnline: Currency and gold markets in Iran registered one of their biggest weekly declines in recent months despite the re-sanctioning of wide sectors of the economy by the Trump White House.
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Publish Date:17/November/2018 | 10:18

US Decision to Keep Iran in Swift Seen as a Compromise

EghtesadOnline: Sanctions on Iran’s banks, oil exports, ships and ports, lifted in 2015 as part of a nuclear weapons agreement that Trump abandoned in May, will be reimposed on Monday. But it is not clear whether those banks would be allowed to participate in the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift. That is the system that allows the world’s banks to communicate with one another, making global transactions possible.
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Publish Date:05/November/2018 | 10:09

US Backing Down From Cutting Iran’s SWIFT Access

EghtesadOnline: Senior US State Department officials working on the Iran issue are said to have convinced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to permit Iran to remain connected to the international banking system as part of the Trump administrations' concessions to Iran.
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Publish Date:03/November/2018 | 06:27

Trump Tactic to Sanction Swift May Not Work

EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration abandoned the Iran nuclear deal this year and is reimposing sanctions. The sanctions leave western companies and banks with a stark choice. If they do business with Iran, they lose access to the American market and financial system. Not surprisingly, businesses and banks have been cutting ties with Iran or shelving plans to invest there. But one important financial link to the country remains: the financial messaging service that plays a crucial role in moving money around the international banking system.
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Publish Date:15/October/2018 | 05:59

Europe Trying to Exempt Swift From Iran Sanctions

EghtesadOnline: As the reimpostion of the second round of US sanctions draw near, European finance ministers will try to persuade the Trump administration not to cut off Iran’s access to Swift, the global financial messaging service, in meetings with Steven Mnuchin, the US treasury secretary, at the IMF gathering in Bali this week.
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Publish Date:10/October/2018 | 05:38

Laughter at Trump speech a sign of U.S. isolation: Iran guards chief

EghtesadOnline: Laughter during U.S. President Donald Trump ’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly was a sign of the United States’ isolation, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday, Fars News reported.
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Publish Date:26/September/2018 | 24:49

Trump , Iran's Rouhani exchange threats, insults on U.N.'s world stage

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a “weakness of intellect.”
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Publish Date:26/September/2018 | 24:44

Obama, Meghan McCain rebuke absent Trump in tribute to fallen senator

EghtesadOnline: Former U.S. presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, once rivals of the late Senator John McCain, praised him in eulogies on Saturday and joined his daughter at a memorial service in subtle and not-so-subtle rebukes of President Donald Trump .
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Publish Date:02/September/2018 | 24:12

Trump Warns Against Doing Business With Iran

EghtesadOnline: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said sanctions reimposed on Iran were the “most biting ever”, as he warned other countries from doing business with Tehran.
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Publish Date:08/August/2018 | 05:06

Saudis Misled Trump , Failed to Compensate Iranian Oil Loss

EghtesadOnline: Iran said on Tuesday US President Donald Trump was mistaken to expect Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to compensate for supply losses caused by US sanctions on Iran, after OPEC production rose only modestly in July.
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Publish Date:01/August/2018 | 09:50

Trump threatens U.S. government shutdown over border wall

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats do not fund his border wall and back immigration law changes, betting that maintaining a hard line will work in Republicans’ favor in November congressional elections.
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Publish Date:30/July/2018 | 10:30

Iran dismisses angry Trump warning against threatening U.S.

EghtesadOnline: Iran on Monday dismissed an angry warning from U.S. President Donald Trump that Tehran risked dire consequences “the like of which few throughout history have suffered before” if it made threats against the United States.
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Publish Date:24/July/2018 | 10:56

Targeting critics, Trump threatens ex-officials' security clearances

EghtesadOnline: The White House on Monday threatened to strike back at critics of President Donald Trump ’s contacts with Russia by revoking the security clearances of six former U.S. officials, drawing accusations that he was abusing his power and aiming to stifle dissent.
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Publish Date:24/July/2018 | 10:22