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Tag: Sofreh: The Art of Persian Celebration

Honoring the Sofreh Tradition: An Interview with Maryam Khosrowshahi

July 19, 2017

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WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States w

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States will on Thursday issue fresh sanctions targeting Lebanon’s Hezbollah, including re-designating it under a terrorism authority, according to a statement seen by Reuters, in a move aimed at emphasizing its links to the Iranian government.

While Hezbollah is not being designated under any new authority, the Treasury Department is re-designating it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist “for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force,” according to the statement.

A U.S. official said that the re-designation was intended to show that Hezbollah is acting on behalf of the Iranian government and update the public record to link the designation to Hezbollah’s actions on behalf of Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.

Hezbollah was first designated under the authority in 2001 and is also sanctioned by the U.S. as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The United States also designated a group of 10 people on Thursday that it accused of smuggling cash for Hezbollah.

The U.S. official said that the measures to be taken on Thursday were separate to further action the U.S. plans to take against Iran, as Washington looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier on Thursday that he would hold a press conference on Monday about “the toughest sanctions in history” that Washington plans to impose on Iran.

(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Michael Martina; Editing by Michelle Nichols)

Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States will impose “

Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday as he urged Beijing to cooperate with Washington.

Bessent said he would hold a press conference on Monday to discuss details.

“It is a one-two punch. We have the blockade (on Iran), and we are going to have the toughest sanctions in history,” Bessent told CNBC. “It is going to work in Iran and we are going to collapse this regime.”

“It is time for our allies and the rest of the world to make a decision,” he said.

President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday of economic consequences against any country that provided “any type of lifeline to Iran” as the United States looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago.

“I think oil markets are misinterpreting what this economic pressure means,” Bessent said. Oil prices climbed to more than three-week highs on Thursday.

“We have asymmetric information, and I’m not sure why oil has popped up on this,” Bessent said. “If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely there will not be a large-scale kinetic restart.”

When asked if the United States could target China for doing business with Iran, Bessent said many conversations were best to have in private.

“We are confident that everyone wants the Strait (of Hormuz) reopened, and for energy prices to come back down,” he said. “Keep in mind that the Chinese get 50% (of their) energy from inside the [Persian] Gulf. So it would do them a big service to get with the program.”

By Kanishka Singh and Jana Choukeir WASHINGTON/DUB

By Kanishka Singh and Jana Choukeir
WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned of economic consequences against any country that provided “any type of lifeline to Iran” as the United States looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago.

Thousands have been killed in the war, which quickly drew in [Persian] Gulf nations and shocked global markets as Iran flexed its ability to curb shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which carried about a fifth of the world’s traded oil before February.

The U.S. and Iran have twice announced ceasefire deals, in April and June, aiming to restore the free flow of shipping through Hormuz on a path towards ending the conflict, but both quickly crumbled, even as Israel has largely withdrawn from the fighting.

In a social media message on Wednesday, Trump promised “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale,” although details were scant.

Iran has weathered continuous punishing economic sanctions for nearly 50 years, since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

“ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences,” Trump wrote.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called Trump’s comments an attempt to divert American public opinion from domestic financial problems, including record debt and rising interest rates.

He said Washington’s insistence on policies he described as failed would bring further failures and alienate Iranians.

“America’s economic terrorism threatens the global economy and the national sovereignty of countries around the world,” he said on X.

Trump has yet to achieve the objectives he set out at the start of the war: dismantling Iran‘s nuclear programme, curbing its ability to attack regional rivals and creating conditions for Iranians to overthrow their clerical rulers.

By AJ Vicens Aug 19 (Reuters) – Several U.S. gover

By AJ Vicens
Aug 19 (Reuters) – Several U.S. government agencies warned that unidentified hackers are trying to breach devices made by Siemens that are used to monitor and operate water facilities and other critical infrastructure systems, according to a cybersecurity advisory published on Wednesday.

The warning comes amid widespread cyber incidents targeting local water systems in multiple states in recent weeks in attacks cybersecurity experts suspect are linked to Iran.

The advisory describes an “active threat” to all Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers across multiple critical infrastructure sectors, including manufacturing, energy, water and wastewater, chemical, food and agriculture facilities, according to the warning issued by the National Security Agency, FBI, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Depending on specific circumstances, compromises of these devices could lead to the disruption of critical processes, safety incidents, downtime or equipment damage, the compromise of sensitive data, compliance violations and cascading impacts across interconnected systems, the government warned.

Siemens did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to the advisory, the hackers are using AI to dramatically reduce the technical expertise and time required to develop exploits that can successfully compromise the systems, the agencies said.

CISA warned on July 30 of a significant increase in hackers targeting programmable logic controllers, following on a July 22 advisory warning of Iranian-affiliated hackers exploiting such devices manufactured by Siemens, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric.

By Kayhan Life Staff August 19 - Foad Pashaei, sec

By Kayhan Life Staff
August 19 - Foad Pashaei, secretary-general of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran (Liberal Democrat), was seriously injured in what the exiled political group described as an assassination attempt at his home in Los Angeles on Aug. 17.

Pashaei was taken to the hospital after the attack and admitted to intensive care.

Kayhan Life spoke with Pashaei and his wife at the hospital on the evening of Aug. 18. They said the FBI was investigating the attack alongside local law enforcement authorities.

Kayhan Life was also told that Pashaei had been warned approximately two weeks before the attack that he could be targeted and had been advised to take additional security precautions.

The attack occurred at about 7:45 p.m. local time. The security cameras at Pashaei’s private residence had been disabled before the assault, according to information obtained by Kayhan Life.

Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, human-rights advocate, and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, strongly condemned the attack and directly accused the Islamic Republic of responsibility. In a statement titled “Assassination Attempt in the Heart of America: How Far Must the Islamic Republic Go Before the World Wakes Up?” Ebadi said that, given what she described as the Islamic Republic’s “long and bloody history” of targeting opponents, she believed the assault was politically motivated and had been ordered from Tehran.

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DUBAI, Aug 19 – The United Arab Emirates’ decision

DUBAI, Aug 19 – The United Arab Emirates’ decision to suspend all financial and economic transactions with Iran until further notice, citing a military escalation by Tehran with a missile threat, has refocused the spotlight on fraught ties between the major Persian Gulf Arab oil producer and Iran.

The UAE, a close U.S. ally and regional power, was the Gulf state most heavily hit by Tehran during the early stages of the Middle East war. However, the last reported attack on UAE soil was the May 4 strike on Fujairah port, a key oil export hub.

The move by the UAE to sever commercial ties came after its defence ministry said that it had detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran, an incident that marked the first time in months that residents received telephone alerts warning of possible threats.

In a statement, the ministry said the missiles targeted “maritime traffic” based on its assessments. Both missiles fell into the sea, it said.

The UAE also sent a phone alert on Tuesday to residents stating that the situation was safe and people should resume normal activities after the earlier warning.

Iran‘s foreign ministry rejected the statement by the UAE that its missiles targeted maritime traffic, describing it as “baseless.”

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