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BRUSSELS – Five years ago this week in Vienna, the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany) and Iran agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). To mark the fifth anniversary of that…
Why the USA is NOT About to Attack Iran
Mareeg.com-Dr. Mirandi, Professor Extraordinaire of Iran, said it best when asked
on Al Jazeera if the USA was going to attack Iran. He stated something
so obvious that you would think western journalists would have already
come to this…
Decertifying The Iran Deal Is Dangerously Reckless
Mareeg.com-The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s President Macron or Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to preserve the deal.…
The Best Hope for the Iranian People
by Geoffrey Hoon-Mareeg-LONDON – One of the most extraordinary things about the current protests in Iran – the largest since the Green Movement in 2009 – is that the very people that they are directed against may well have been the people…
Rouhani says Iran will continue to produce missiles – TV
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not consider that a violation of international accords, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday in a speech broadcast on state television.
Rouhani spoke…
Iran sentences ‘Mossad agent’ to death over scientist killings
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has sentenced to death a person found guilty of providing information to Israel to help it assassinate several senior nuclear scientists, Tehran's prosecutor said on Tuesday.
At least…
Goldman sees Iran tensions posing long-term threat to global oil supply
Goldman Sachs said that while oil output from the Kurdistan region was potentially at risk due to a standoff with Iraq, tensions between the United States and Iran remained a larger and longer term threat to global supply.
A risk premium…
UPDATE 2-EU defends Iran deal despite Trump, appeals to US Congress
The European Union on Monday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers despite sharp criticism of the accord by President Donald Trump, and it urged U.S. lawmakers not to reimpose sanctions on Tehran.…
Iran shuts border with northern Iraq – Iranian news agency
ANKARA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Iran has closed its border gates
with northern Iraq in response to an independence referendum in
Iraq's Kurdish region last month, Iran's Tasnim news agency
reported on Sunday.
"Considering the developments…
The Iran Nuclear Deal Is Bad – and Necessary
by Ehud Barak-Mareeg.com-TEL AVIV – US President Donald Trump is poised to decertify the nuclear agreement with Iran, launching a process by which the US Congress could re-impose sanctions on the country. Fortunately, it seems likely that…
Annulling The Iran Deal: A Dangerous Strategic Mistake
Alon Ben-Meir - Oct 6, 2017-Mareeg.com-The concern that Iran will pursue the development of nuclear weapons once the current Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal expires in ten years is legitimate. But addressing these concerns…
Lifting The Sanctions Will Not End Iran’s Revolutionary Zeal
The timely implementation of the Iran deal and Tehran’s full compliance with its various provisions to date should not be viewed as just an accomplished goal, but as a continuing process that could take several years to determine its…