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London, 2 Jan – Iran has announced a new ambassador to Syria after three months of the role going unfilled due to reports of disagreements on who should fill the role, AlArabiya.net reported on Sunday.
Javad Turk Abadi was named to the role after the previous ambassador completed his mission three months ago.
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London, 2 Jan – Turkmenistan stopped gas exports to Iran on Sunday in a long-running dispute over arrears, the Iranian state gas company said, days after Tehran said the issue had been temporarily resolved.
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London, 1 Jan – In Act of Support, the father of the political prisoner also went on hunger strike.
Hossein Sadeghi said: “my son Arash has gone on hunger strike for 67 days and he is struggling with death now. On Monday 26th December 2016, Arash was transferred to Taleghani Hospital of Tehran for treatment due to the critical health condition.
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London, 30 Dec – An article in the Guardian, published December 29 reports on the renewed investigation by an Argentinian court on Thursday into a prosecutor’s accusation that former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in a bombing that killed 85 people.
The attack was perpetrated on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 wounding hundreds.
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London, 30 Dec – Russia and Turkey brokered a nationwide ceasefire in Syria that effect at midnight (2200 GMT) This is a potentially major breakthrough in the conflict.
The deal was announced hours earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin and confirmed by the Syrian army and opposition, but does not include designated “terrorists” like the Islamic State group,Yahoo News reports.
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London, 29 Dec – On Tuesday, Shahrvand Daily, part of the Tehran Times, first reported on the struggles that force many of the poorest Iranian people, the homeless, to spend their nights in empty graves. Shahrvand Daily published the shocking footage, shot by Saeed Gholamhoseini in Shahriar, some 20 kilometers west of Tehran, which showed some 50 men, women, and children, living in the cemetery.
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London, 28 Dec – On Tuesday December 27th 2016, the head of the council of Farah Province in the west of Afghanistan, Jamileh Amini announced that IRGC cooperates with the militias of Taliban in Afghanistan and they are actively fighting beside them. She also claimed that 25 Taliban militants who were recently killed in this province were also members of IRGC.
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London, 28 Dec – Powerline News published a story on December 27 by Paul Mirengoff, about documents posted last week by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and quotes the story byJenna Lifhits of the Weekly Standard, that allegedly reveals that President Obama granted Iran permission to stockpile uranium in excess of the 300 kilogram limit set by the nuclear deal.
According to the story, the exemptions have been kept secret for nearly a year, but the Trump administration intends to make them public, which is possibly why the IAEA decided to reveal them.
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London, 27 Dec – Iran’s nuclear program has generated international concern about their ability to develop nuclear weapons, as noted by The Los Angeles Times. Iran says its goal is to produce fuel to power reactors, yet even with the agreement with the United States many have doubts, including Donald Trump.
Whether Iran develops and fields nuclear weapons is of significant interest to several nations in the region, include Iran itself, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Other nations, outside the region want to ensure that Iran isn’t developing nuclear weapons, including the United States, France, and the UK.
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London, 27 Dec – The names of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) have finally been removed from Australia’s Foreign Ministry’s terrorist organizations list. Australia is the last government, and country, in the world who used this labelling against Iranian Resistance, and now it breaks apart.
