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US, South Korea Discuss Iran Oil Issues

EghtesadOnline: A top US official discussed this week South Korea’s crude oil imports from Iran and urged Seoul to accelerate its oil supply diversification, S&P Global Platts reported on Thursday, quoting a diplomatic source.
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Publish Date:23/February/2019 | 14:46

Oil Prices Reach 2019 Highs

EghtesadOnline: O il prices on Monday hit their highest levels since November last year, lifted by OPEC-led supply cuts, US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, and hopes that the Sino-US trade dispute may soon end.
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Publish Date:19/February/2019 | 11:31

EU Rejects US Demand to Quit Iran Nuclear Accord

EghtesadOnline: The European Union and the bloc’s powers on Friday rejected an appeal by the US for Europeans to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal and join its “maximum pressure” drive against Tehran.
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Publish Date:17/February/2019 | 24:12

Ambivalence Surrounds INSTEX for Iranian Businesses

EghtesadOnline: Europe unveiled its long-awaited mechanism for facilitating trade with Iran by circumventing US global financial dominance on Thursday and the move received a mixed response in Tehran’s commercial corridors.
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Publish Date:05/February/2019 | 15:14

IAEA Slams US, Israel Meddling on Iran

EghtesadOnline: At a private reception for diplomats on Wednesday, the UN nuclear chief strongly criticized efforts to hamstring his organization that has been at the forefront of nuclear security and verification of Tehran’s compliance with the international nuclear deal, according to two foreign officials present there.
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Publish Date:03/February/2019 | 14:17

Baghdad Seeks to Balance Ties With Tehran, Washington

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi President Barham Salih is set to travel to the United States at the head of a delegation to negotiate exemption from sanctions on Iran, as Baghdad is trying to balance its relations with Tehran and Washington.
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Publish Date:21/January/2019 | 13:05

U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo meets troops and officials in Iraq

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met American troops and political leaders in Iraq on Wednesday to reassure them about a U.S. military withdrawal from Syria and warn that Washington’s arch-foe Iran remains a regional security threat.
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Publish Date:09/January/2019 | 13:51

Oil rises 2 percent on U.S.-China trade talk optimism

EghtesadOnline: Oil prices climbed 2 percent on Wednesday as the extension of U.S.-China talks in Beijing raised hopes that the world’s two largest economies would resolve their trade standoff.
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Publish Date:09/January/2019 | 13:39

U.S.-China trade talks conclude as hopes of a deal build

EghtesadOnline: Chinese and U.S. teams ended trade talks in Beijing on Wednesday that lasted longer than expected and officials said details will be released soon, raising hopes an all-out trade war that could badly disrupt the global economy can be avoided.
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Publish Date:09/January/2019 | 13:34

Europe Must Consider Consequences of SPV Failure

EghtesadOnline: As the main party to blame for the possible failure of efforts to set up a special financial mechanism for trading with Iran, Europe will have to ponder over the implications of its inaction, a senior foreign affairs official said.
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Publish Date:07/January/2019 | 09:43

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