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Two tankers carrying Iranian condensate, a type of
ultra-light oil, have been floating off the United Arab Emirates for
about a month as demand for the oil fell ahead of U.S.
sanctions.
As shoppers looked over his pots and pans, Farhadi said
he hoped to immigrate soon to the Netherlands. He said other young
Iranians with the financial means want to leave the country as well,
while those without, longingly look at life in Europe. Farhadi largely
blamed Iran's poor relations with the rest of the world for the
faltering economy.
The Bavar-373 long-range air defence system that Iran is
developing has successfully passed ballistic missile interception
tests, Iranian news agencies reported the country's deputy air
defence commander as saying on 10 September.
NUCLEAR DEAL & NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted Wednesday
that he's met with top Iranian officials in hopes of salvaging the
scrapped nuclear deal - as he slammed the Trump administration for
trying to further "isolate" Iran.
SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS
While Iran's crude exports have started to slide, its
woes could intensify as it is likely to face further obstacles in
condensate and refined product markets. easing pressure when the US
sanctions snap back early November.
Iran is "feeling the pain" from the sweeping
sanctions revived by President Trump in August, the U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told Fox News exclusively in a
wide-ranging interview on Wednesday.
Republican U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation
on Wednesday seeking to counteract what they see as Iran's increasing
influence in Iraq, amid concern about attacks in Iraq by groups U.S.
officials consider Iranian proxies, a Senate aide said on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia has the chance to regain Asian market share
after at least three North Asian refiners have asked to receive extra
supplies of Saudi oil for October as they are concerned that the
returning U.S. sanctions on Iran will limit supply just as winter
demand begins, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
Iran faces a potentially crushing loss of oil exports
when US sanctions return in November, but the impact could be blunted
by its experience of working around embargoes. When Iran faced its
toughest international sanctions between 2012 and 2015, analysts say
it found a number of creative solutions, from repainting and renaming
ships to switching off their tracking devices.
Iran's OPEC governor has blamed US President Donald
Trump for "bullying" oil markets and warned of the economic
consequences for Europe and Asia from higher prices after crude
breached $80/b.
An exiled Iranian Dervish activist accused Tehran on
Saturday of violating its own prison regulations by allowing seven
Dervish women to suffer "appalling" conditions in jail...
These allegations remain consistent with systemic patterns of abuse
by Iran's Prisons Organization and its director, Asghar Jahangir.
It's long past time for Washington to sanction them for their history
of repression.
TERRORISM & EXTREMISM
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the
International Criminal Court will soon complete its tasks concerning
the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq
Hariri. This is after perusing about 300 indictment
documents and listening to 300 witnesses of the crime of the era.
With this, the circle has been closed for the culprits and their
master Hassan Nasrallah - the gang leader of Hezbollah. This
will end decades of impunity for crimes committed by the gang in
Lebanon, Arab world and the entire world.
IRANIAN INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS
Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a vice president, chief of
staff, and senior aide under former Iranian President Mahmud
Ahmadinejad, has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison after being
convicted on charges including threatening national security, Iranian
media report.
Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began
state-wide strike against the executions of Kurdish activists and the
bombing of opposition parties in neighboring states. Last week, six
Kurdish political prisoners were executed. Iran also launched missile
strikes against the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of
Iran (KDPI) in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Saturday, killing
at least 15 members.
IRANIAN REGIONAL AGGRESSION
Iran's destabilising actions and violent extremist
organisations are the main security threats to the region and to the
US, Central Command chief General Joseph Votel said on Wednesday.
RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized
Europe on Wednesday for "reconciling" with Iran instead of
countering its "terror regime."
GULF STATES, YEMEN, & IRAN
The United States should commit to open-ended support to
maritime interdiction of Iranian arms shipments to Yemen, such as the
weapons interdicted by a U.S. Navy destroyer on Aug. 28. If the
United States, Israel and Europe could go back in time and prevent
Hezbollah from becoming a powerhouse, they would do so in a
heartbeat. This is the fleeting opportunity that still remains in
Yemen.
Iran is stepping up its involvement with political and
militant Shiite groups in Pakistan, in what foreign affairs experts
see as an escalating shadow proxy war with Saudi Arabia in a country
with the world's second-largest Muslim population.
IRAQ & IRAN
The IRGC has fired a literal shot across the KRG's bow,
but the brazen violation of Baghdad's sovereignty may ultimately
benefit Tehran's opponents.
The White House
condemned the Islamic Republic for rocket attacks on U.S. facilities
in Baghdad and Basra. Such attacks have been common-but it's not
always clear who exactly is driving them.
Thousands of Iranians attended a massive funeral for 135
soldiers on Thursday, 30 years after the end of the 1980s war between
Iran and Iraq.
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