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EU Galvanized to Defend Sovereignty Against US

EghtesadOnline: Reaffirming a stance earlier adopted by top European officials, EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Federica Mogherini, says the case of US sanctions against Iran has galvanized the European bloc to defend its sovereignty.
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Publish Date:05/January/2019 | 15:08

EU Urged to Press US on Airbus Deliveries

EghtesadOnline: Iran has called on the European Union to press US authorities to allow the delivery of Airbus passenger aircraft purchased by Tehran.
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Publish Date:19/December/2018 | 09:27

Zarif: No Policy Shift Under US Pressure

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s top diplomat emphasized that the United States’ “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran will not prompt the country to change its policies.
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Publish Date:16/December/2018 | 13:00

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

US Exempts Indian-Backed Chabahar Port From Sanctions

EghtesadOnline: The United States said on Tuesday it would exempt Iran's Indian-backed port of Chabahar from new sanctions on Tehran, recognizing the value of the project to Afghanistan.
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Publish Date:10/November/2018 | 09:08

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

US Pushing SWIFT to Disconnect Iran

EghtesadOnline: US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin has announced that his agency is currently negotiating with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a global financial messaging service that connects more than 11,000 banks in more than 200 countries, on disconnecting Iran from the network.
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Publish Date:23/October/2018 | 08:02

US Wants ICJ to Drop Iran Frozen Asset Case

EghtesadOnline: The United States asked judges at the International Court of Justice to throw out a claim by Iran to recover $1.75 billion in national bank assets seized by American courts.
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Publish Date:10/October/2018 | 05:35

ICJ Hearing on Iran Frozen Assets in US Begins on Monday

EghtesadOnline: The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will hold public hearings in the case concerning Certain Iranian Assets (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), from October 8 to 12 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the court, according to a statement on ICJ's website.
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Publish Date:08/October/2018 | 08:45

US Pressure on Iran to Facilitate SWIFT Alternative

EghtesadOnline: A group of US lawmakers have urged the US Treasury Department to cut off Iran from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
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Publish Date:28/August/2018 | 06:38

China Refuses US Request to Ban Iran Oil Imports

EghtesadOnline: The US has been unable to persuade China to cut Iranian oil imports, according to two officials familiar with the negotiations, dealing a blow to US President Donald Trump’s efforts to isolate Iran after his withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear accord.
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Publish Date:04/August/2018 | 13:16

Iran Government Unifies Foreign Exchange Rates

EghtesadOnline: I ran's government decided to finally put an end to the dual foreign exchange regime, in an attempt to control the bullish foreign exchange and gold markets and promote safety of foreign investments.
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Publish Date:10/April/2018 | 06:53

Forex Rally Upsets Markets

EghtesadOnline: T he rial continued to drop to record lows against the US dollar on Sunday, ending a short spell of stability that held for only a few days after the government assured the public that volatility in the foreign exchange market was temporary.
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Publish Date:05/February/2018 | 14:28

US calls 'ridiculous', Iran to build missiles: Rouhani

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed US calls to renegotiate a nuclear deal as "ridiculous" and pledged that Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defense.
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Publish Date:29/October/2017 | 14:43