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The U.S. Congress will allow a deadline on reimposing
sanctions on Iran to pass this week, congressional and White House
aides said on Tuesday, leaving a pact between world powers and Tehran
intact at least temporarily.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker
(R-Tenn.) said Tuesday he's "semi-hopeful" Congress and the
White House will come to an agreement on Iran deal legislation, as a
deadline to quickly re-impose nuclear sanctions passes without
action.
The Trump administration is preparing a public display
of what it says is evidence that Iran is providing missiles to Houthi
rebels in Yemen, threatening a key U.S. ally in the region, according
to four U.S. officials.
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday all
Muslim nations should work together to defend the rights of
Palestinians against Donald Trump's decision last week to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Too often in Washington, the debate about Iran centers
only on nuclear centrifuges and ballistic missiles. We sometimes
forget a basic truth: proliferators are also persecutors. It is true
in North Korea and it is certainly true in Iran. As the Trump
administration and Congress consider new strategies to counter Iran's
ever-expanding list of illicit behaviors, there is fresh opportunity
to support the people of Iran and have clear eyes on just what kind
of regime exists at the other side of the negotiating table.
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against
an Iranian academic with Swedish residency convicted of espionage,
Amnesty International and his family said on Tuesday.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
France's foreign minister criticized Iran's regional
ambitions, saying Paris could not accept Tehran's military expansion
to the Mediterranean, and accused Russia of failing to use its influence
to push U.N.-led Syrian peace talks and curb violence.
Ahead of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries' (OPEC) ministerial meeting in Vienna Nov. 30-Dec. 1,
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh expressed hope that
production cuts that were agreed to last year would be extended. What
was at stake, however, was more than energy markets. Zanganeh and his
counterparts, including Qataris, Saudis and Emiratis, met amid a
delicate geopolitical situation. In light of regional competition
that features economic blockades, proxy warfare and the exchange of
public insults, the prospect of negotiating and subsequently
enforcing a joint plan to shape global oil markets might have
appeared unlikely. On the contrary, a deal was reached to maintain
the production cuts without major obstacles.
CYBERWARFARE
Iran is one of the leading cyberspace adversaries of the
United States.
PROXY WARS
The prominent Iraqi Shiite militia leader can be clearly
seen, standing with militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement
and issuing threats to Israel from across the northern border in
Lebanon.
IRANIAN DOMESTIC ISSUES
Iranian media say another earthquake has jolted the
country's south, followed by several aftershocks. The semi-official
ISNA news agency says the magnitude 6.1 temblor rocked the village of
Hajdak in the southern province of Kerman in the early hours on
Wednesday, about 400 miles south of Tehran. ISNA says the quake's
depth was 6.2 miles and that 58 people were injured as they ran out
of their homes. It says the area was jolted by several aftershocks,
ranging in magnitude from 4 to 5.1.
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