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The chief of Iran's nuclear agency says the country's
effort to acquire uranium has resulted in a stockpile of as much as
950 tons.
Iran has built a factory that can produce rotors for up
to 60 centrifuges a day, the head of its atomic agency said on
Wednesday, upping the stakes in a confrontation with Washington over
the Islamic Republic's nuclear work.
Russia and Kazakhstan are cutting back sales of
hot-rolled steel coils to Iran in part because of new U.S. sanctions
on Tehran, steel traders said.
UANI IN THE NEWS
I thought the president's performance today [at the
meeting with President Putin] was [not only] disappointing but
profoundly troubling... How are you going to make America great again
if a foreign power can determine the winner in our elections?
The Tri-Border Area (TBA) between Brazil, Paraguay, and
Argentina is an important area for Hezbollah's global activities.
NUCLEAR DEAL & NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Iran is ready to boost its uranium enrichment to higher
levels if talks fail with Europe on salvaging the nuclear deal, a top
official said Tuesday.
Tehran will likely resort to measured countermoves in
the nuclear domain at first, but successful U.S. pressure could spur
it to challenge JCPOA limits, take action in non-nuclear domains, or
push back against U.S. and allied forces.
SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS
There is one big hitch in U.S. plans to stem buying of
Iranian oil: China. Some in Washington now expect that China will
vacuum up much of the Iranian oil that other nations won't buy
because of the threat of U.S. sanctions, according to a senior U.S.
government energy official.
The U.S. embargo on Iran oil shipments has put Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in a quandary. If he plays along, India could
find itself on the right side of President Donald Trump on trade but
lose cheap supplies and precious foreign exchange.
Iran has filed a lawsuit against the United States
alleging that Washington's decision in May to impose sanctions after
pulling out of a nuclear deal violates a 1955 treaty between the two
countries, the International Court of Justice said on Tuesday. A
State Department official said the application was without merit and
the United States would fight it in the court.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that
international parties remaining in the Iran nuclear deal have
kickstarted practical measures ensuring banking relations and the
resumption of Iranian oil sales, two weeks ahead of the first phase
of US sanctions.
RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN
Iran and Israel were heading towards a direct
confrontation in one of the most keenly contested territories in the
Middle East, as forces loyal to the Assad regime and Tehran routed
rebels in Syria... The Syrian army, supported by Iranian militias,
was pushing towards the Golan Heights, a strip 40 miles west of
Damascus snatched by Israel in 1967.
A pro-Iranian event held in Gaza on Monday did not go
according to plan, after Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, apparently failed to deliver an
expected address to the audience, and Egypt reportedly told
high-level Hamas officials to stay away from the event.
Syrian rebels and Iranian-backed negotiators have
reached a deal to evacuate thousands of people from two
rebel-besieged Shi'ite villages in northwestern Syria in return for
the release of hundreds of detainees in state prisons, opposition
sources said.
New weapons and friends make an attack on Tehran's
nuclear facilities a more thinkable proposition.
OTHER IRANIAN INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS
Iran has been gripped with drought for over a decade,
and the country's precipitation has dropped to its lowest level in
the past half-century.
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