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By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran is

By Samia Nakhoul
BEIRUT, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, according to [Persian] Gulf officials and analysts.

Rather than seeking a decisive military victory, Tehran is pursuing a strategy of calibrated escalation aimed at widening the conflict without triggering full-scale war.

The goal, they say, is to convince the United States and its allies that containing the crisis is more costly than accommodating Iran‘s demands over the Strait of Hormuz.

The message from Tehran is that unless Washington accepts a new status quo that gives Iran a greater role in Hormuz, the conflict could spread beyond the [Persian] Gulf.

By putting multiple maritime chokepoints and energy assets at risk, Iran believes it can strengthen its hand in any future negotiations.

“Iran, from the beginning, has tried to out-escalate the United States by stretching out its escalation options so that it always has something new to bring every week — a new geography, a new type of weapon, a new type of target,” Michael Knights of the Washington Institute told Reuters.

“The bigger advantage they have is not that they can hurt America or Israel,” Knights added. “Their big advantage is that they can hurt the regional states and the global economy.”

Having demonstrated its ability to disrupt traffic through Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil consumption flowed before the war, Tehran has signalled that no maritime chokepoint is off limits.

Threats to the Red Sea and Saudi energy infrastructure suggest a broader effort to raise the cost of protecting global commerce while testing Washington’s tolerance for disruption.

By Steve Holland, Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi

By Steve Holland, Elwely Elwelly and Parisa Hafezi
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/DUBAI, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump who had cited talks he said would take place that afternoon as justification for calling off attacks.

Over the weekend Trump repeated a pattern that has emerged throughout the past five months: announcing plans for “massive attacks” on Iran, only to cancel them at the last minute.

“Would I rather make a deal? I’m not looking to kill people,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

“Now what we’re doing is talking to them, in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon,” he said, without identifying a venue or participants for such talks.

Iran‘s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei rejected the claim, saying no negotiations with the United States were taking place and no meetings were scheduled. Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, he said.

Baghaei added that all Iranian negotiators were currently in the country, apart from Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who was on a religious pilgrimage in Iraq. The only talks under way, he said, were discussions with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz.

A senior Iranian source also told Reuters that no talks were planned and that Araqchi would be unavailable at least until the end of the week.

Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran executed two of its citizen

Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran executed two of its citizens on Monday on charges of espionage and cooperation with Israel, Iranian state media reported, amid an increase in executions for offences relating to national security.

Omid Behzad and Pouria Safvat were accused of sending Israel the coordinates of military and security sites as well as images and information during a brief war last summer and during the latest conflict, judiciary news outlet Mizan reported.

The executions come at a tense moment for Iran, which quelled a period of nationwide unrest in January by killing thousands of protesters, only for the U.S. and Israel to launch renewed strikes on it on February 28.

A source briefed on Israel’s military strategy told Reuters in March that during the current Iran war Israel targeted checkpoints manned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps based on intelligence from informants on the ground.

Human Rights Watch reported on July 24 that Iran has executed at least 50 people in the past four months on vague national security charges, including several 18- and 19-year-olds.

Iran‘s permanent mission in Geneva did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. Tehran has previously denied accusations of abuses against prisoners.

U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Iran would be held on Monday. But Iran‘s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that there were no talks with the United States at present.

Last year’s 12-day war began in mid-June when Israel launched an air campaign that the United States later joined. It ended with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

The current conflict began in late February with U.S. and Israeli strikes following weeks of pressure on Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and its handling of the January protests.

The warring sides paused major conflict with with a fragile truce agreement in June. But Trump has repeatedly issued threats to escalate the war again, only to allow more time for talks, which have so far not led to a comprehensive deal.

(Reporting by Tala Ramadan and Emily Giles; Editing by Angus McDowall, Tom Hogue and Hugh Lawson)

By Nazanine Nouri Aug. 3 - The Metropolitan Museum

By Nazanine Nouri
Aug. 3 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just opened its first-ever exhibition dedicated to Orientalism, with treasures from Iran among the highlights.

“Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy” — which ends on Feb. 28, 2027 — explores how Islamic art and design were interpreted and emulated by 19th century European and Ottoman artists to portray the Middle East and North Africa.

Objects from Iran feature prominently. They include a few 19th century swan-neck glass bottles and their Tiffany glass imitations known as “ashkdan” [containers for tears] which, according to the legend, were intended to collect the tears of wives separated from their husbands; a 17th-century ceramic “Bottle Depicting a Peacock in Foliage” with a silver mount; and an 18th-century carved coco-de-mer beggar’s bowl known as “kashkul” – an emblematic boat-shaped vessel carried by wandering dervishes of the Islamic Sufi tradition.

“In the 19th century, Persian art and culture held a mesmerizing sway over the imaginations of Europeans and Americans, including writers, translators, poets, artists, craftsmen, architects, designers, and even composers, who regarded Persia (present-day Iran) as an unmatched wellspring of creativity and refinement, inspiring a vast body of literature, visual art, and music,” said Maryam Ekhtiar, who co-curated the exhibition and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum since 2003 as a specialist in 19th-century Persian art and culture, calligraphy and late-Persian paintings.

“Visitors to the exhibition will learn that this tendency was so pervasive that many designers and manufacturers marketed their creations as ‘Persian,’ regardless of where they were actually made,” she added.

Met Museum Chief Executive Officer Max Hollein gave his take on the exhibition.

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By Reuters/ Edited by Kayhan Life Staff Aug. 2 - A

By Reuters/ Edited by Kayhan Life Staff
Aug. 2 - A large banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump alongside a written death threat was displayed in front of Iran’s Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles in Tehran’s Azadi Square on Sunday, August 2.

The display comes after 13 days of direct military exchanges between the United States and Iran, ending on July 24. During the confrontation, Washington carried out strikes inside Iran, while Tehran said it targeted U.S. military facilities and equipment in several Arab countries, including Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

The escalation followed a June 18 memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran and subsequent negotiations toward a final agreement. Those talks later stalled over security concerns and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global energy supplies and international trade.

The latest tensions also follow the February 28 U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, which Tehran says killed more than 3,000 people. Iran responded with attacks it claimed caused casualties among American and Israeli forces.

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