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Iran’s Aseman Airlines Signs Deal to Buy at Least 30 Boeing Jets

April 04, 2017 By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Tim Hepher DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - Iran's Aseman Airlines has signed a tentative deal to buy at least 30 Boeing 737 MAX jets, in the first new business with the...

Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview

By Nazanine Nouri “1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before the Islamic Revolution. It was published in French in 1978,...

Two Saudi policemen hurt in bombing in restive Shi’ite town-SPA

May 30, 2017 DUBAI (Reuters) - Two policemen were wounded when a bomb exploded in Awamiya in eastern Saudi Arabia, where many of the country's Shi'ite Muslim minority live, state news agency SPA reported on...

Absent from America, French Cars Drive into Iran Election

May 16, 2017 By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Laurence Frost and Edward Taylor - Rouhani claims new Peugeot as policy vindication - Volkswagen and German peers hold off investing - Pressure from Washington deepens wariness LONDON/PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - French carmakers PSA and Renault are...

Kurdish independence in Iraq likely “not if but when”-U.S. general

May 23, 2017 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iraqi Kurdish push for independence from Baghdad appears likely to be a question of "not if but when," in a significant challenge to Iraq's stability, the...

G7 Ministers Look to Persuade Russia to Abandon Syria’s Assad

April 11, 2017 By Crispian Balmer and Steve Scherer LUCCA/ITAL (Reuters) - YForeign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations met in Italy on Monday, looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with...

On Trial in Iran: a Dual National Accused of Stealing $40 Billion

July 10, 2017 By Potkin Azarmehr Mehdi Shams, a British-Iranian dual national, faced the notorious Judge Moghisseh during the first two sessions of his retrial, held on Saturday and Sunday. Shams is accused of being...

Trump to resume precision munitions deliveries to Saudis -officials

 June 13, 2017 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Congress last week that it soon planned to begin delivering precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia under a 2015 weapons deal, congressional officials said on Tuesday. The...

Amid Regional Strains, Qatar Says Hackers Post Fake Comments by Emir

 May 24, 2017 CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar said on Wednesday its state news agency had been hacked, after it reported remarks purportedly by its ruler criticising aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of...

EU’s Mogherini Confident U.S. Will Stick to Iran Nuclear Deal

June 13, 2017 OSLO (Reuters) - European foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday she was confident the United States would stick to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, despite its protestations to the contrary, as the...