By Jubin Katiraie
An Iranian oil tanker bounces across the Mediterranean, but Tehran can’t find any buyer for the ship’s cargo of two million barrels of oil.
On 2 September, Abdulrahman AI-Rashed, editor of Arabic weekly magazine Al-Majalla and senior columnist in the daily newspapers Al-Madina and Al-Bilad, published an article in Alsharq Al-Awsat about the Iranian tanker crisis.
By Pooya Stone
On Monday, September 2, Ken Blackwell, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, wrote an article in Townhall, explaining the possible risks for Western states dealing with Iran.
By Pooya Stone
Members of the Syrian National Coalition’s General Assembly have approved the new cabinet of the Syrian Interim Government, SIG, headed by Abdurrahman Mustafa.
By Jubin Katiraie
There is daily news in Iranian state media about the deaths of workers at their workplace. This includes mine worker deaths, workers falling from heights, deaths of municipal workers in car accidents, elevator installer deaths, workers death in coal mines, worker death because falling from cranes, petrochemical worker deaths, workers deaths due to heat intensity.
By Jubin Katiraie
Roughly a third of global oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, including all of Kuwait’s and Qatar’s oil, 96% of Iraq’s oil, 88% of Saudi Arabia’s oil, and2% of the UAE’s oil.
By Jubin Katiraie
The Iranian security forces raided three mixed-gender parties in Sari, north Iran, on August 29 and 30, which was the weekend in Iran, and arrested 35 young men and women.
By Pooya Stone
Abbas Mousavi, spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, accused the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) of participating in “economic terrorism,” according to the IRNA news agency on Thursday (August 7th). He added that the names of those affiliated with the foundation would be published soon and would be sanctioned. The Iranian Foreign Ministry then issued a statement banning the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, along with its founder, Mark Dubowitz.
By Jubin Katiraie
While tension between Tehran and Washington continues to escalate, The U.S. State Department, in pursuing the policy and the “Maximum pressure campaign,” sanctioned several Iran-backed groups and entities.
The U.S. State Department’s policy statement of this week informs about new wave of sanctions on Iran and is divided into three sections:
By Pooya Stone
On Friday, August 31, the United States blacklisted Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, following repeated warnings over its valuable oil cargo.
Previously known as Grace 1, the ship has been bouncing around the Mediterranean after being held for six weeks at Gibraltar on suspicion that its cargo was bound for Syria.
By Jubin Katiraie
On Friday, August 30, in a new report, the International Atomic Agency (IAEA) announced that Iran has violated the limitations determined by the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
