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BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald

BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said his patience with Iran is running out and he had agreed in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the Islamic republic cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and must re-open the Strait of Hormuz.

“We’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve,” Trump said on Friday after he met Xi in Beijing on the second day of talks which included the Iran war, Taiwan, trade and other issues.

Iran effectively shut the strait to most shipping traffic in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks which began on February 28, causing an unprecedented disruption to global energy supplies. China is close to Iran and the main buyer of its oil.

The U.S. paused its attacks on Iran last month but began a blockade of the country’s ports. Talks aimed at ending the conflict have stalled with Iran refusing to end its nuclear program or relinquish its stockpile of enriched uranium. Tehran denies it intends to build a nuclear weapon.

Xi did not comment on his discussions with Trump about Iran, although China’s foreign ministry issued a blunt statement outlining Beijing’s frustration with the Iran war.

“This conflict, which should never have happened, has no reason to continue,” the ministry said.

Trump said of Iran in an interview aired on Thursday night on Fox News’ “Hannity” program: “I am not going to be much more patient. They should make a deal.”

On the key issue of Iran‘s hidden stockpile of enriched uranium, Trump suggested it only needed to be secured by the U.S. for public relations purposes.

“I don’t think it’s necessary except from a public relations standpoint,” Trump said in the interview.

By Phil Stewart and Doina Chiacu May 14 (Reuters)

By Phil Stewart and Doina Chiacu
May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. bombings have dealt a major blow to Iran‘s military and its defense industry, leaving Tehran with only a small or perhaps very moderate ability to strike its neighbors, the U.S. admiral commanding the war effort said on Thursday.

The remarks by Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, follow reports by Reuters and other news organizations that cite U.S. intelligence suggesting Iran retains a significant missile, drone and small boat capability.

Those capabilities have allowed Iran to continue striking neighbors, particularly the UAE, and pose a sustained threat to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global energy chokepoint.

That Iranian defiance has roiled energy markets, led the U.S. military to impose a naval blockade on Iran and cast global doubt on U.S. President Donald Trump’s public claims of victory.

Cooper declined to offer specific estimates of Iran‘s remaining missile and drone inventories but played down their significance, saying the U.S. military had achieved all of its objectives in its strikes on Iran.

He said Iran‘s defense industry has been set back by 90%.

“They have a very moderate, if not small, capability to continue strikes,” Cooper told a U.S. Senate committee. “And we, of course, have accordingly prepared for such a contingency.”

Iran was not only militarily weakened at home but also in the broader Middle East, Cooper said, adding Tehran is no longer able to transfer arms and other resources to its main allies in the region: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

“Those transfer paths and methods have been cut off,” he said.

By Francesca Halliwell CANNES, France, May 14 (Reu

By Francesca Halliwell
CANNES, France, May 14 (Reuters) – Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi allowed himself to go outside his cinema red lines and play with structure in his Paris-set drama “Parallel Tales,” he told Reuters ahead of its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday.

“There is a more formal playfulness and things that I hadn’t done in my other films … Things that were previously a red line for me. I wouldn’t do them at all,” he said.

“But here, in the structure of the film, I did them. From this perspective, it was a very valuable experience,” said the filmmaker who has been living outside Iran since 2023.

“Parallel Tales,” whose cast includes Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, is Farhadi’s fifth time competing for the festival’s Palme d’Or top prize.

He won the Berlin Film Festival’s top prize in 2011 for “A Separation,” which went on to win the Oscar for best foreign language film, becoming the first Iranian movie to win that award.

He won the same Oscar five years later with “The Salesman,” though he boycotted the ceremony in protest against the travel ban affecting several Muslim-majority countries during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first presidential term.

“Parallel Tales” follows a thief with no place to call his own, played by Adam Bessa, whose good deed lands him a position helping out a reclusive writer (Huppert) who dreams up a sordid story about the people working in a sound studio across the street, played by Cassel, Virginie Efira and Pierre Niney.

The thief takes a manuscript of her story and presents it as his own to one of the studio workers, who, by sharing it with the others, tangles them all up in a tale of spying and distrust.

“We were expecting a master, and he was really impressive the way he was according so much attention to every detail,” said Niney, recalling how Farhadi put drops of water on the costumes himself to ensure they looked as wet as he wanted.

“And that was like this during the whole process. He had such a precise idea of what he wanted.”

(Reporting by Francesca Halliwell, Writing by Miranda Murray, Editing by Rod Nickel)

DUBAI, May 14 (Reuters) – A vessel was boarded by

DUBAI, May 14 (Reuters) – A vessel was boarded by unauthorized personnel on Thursday while at anchor northeast of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah and was heading towards Iranian territorial waters, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said.

Two maritime security sources said the ship was believed to be the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan fishery research vessel.

At least two other vessels have been seized by Iran during the war that began when U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28.

The incident happened 38 nautical miles (70 km) northeast of Fujairah, British navy agency UKMTO said, citing a report received from the vessel’s security officer.

British maritime risk management group Vanguard said it was reported at 0545 GMT on Thursday.

“The company security officer reported that the vessel was taken by Iranian personnel while at anchor,” Vanguard said.

“The vessel is reportedly bound for Iranian territorial waters,” it said, adding that contact had been lost and the vessel was no longer transmitting its position through the Automated Identification System (AIS).

The vessel’s operator, listed on shipping databases as Marshall Islands-based SG Navigation, could not be reached for comment.

The vessel was last seen in the Gulf of Oman, just within Iran‘s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on May 12, according to ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform.

An EEZ extends up to 24 miles (38 ‌km) from a country’s coast.

(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam, Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou; Editing by Sharon Singleton, Aidan Lewis)

By Kayhan Life Staff May 14 - Thousands of busines

By Kayhan Life Staff
May 14 - Thousands of businesses in Iran are shutting down because of the Internet blackout imposed by the Islamic Republic since the Feb. 28 outbreak of the war with the U.S. and Israel. The shutdown, now in its 12th week, has cost the Iranian economy billions of dollars, and depriving tens of millions of citizens of access to the worldwide web.

Many of these businesses — which rely on social media and messaging apps to sell goods and services, process orders and advertise — have been compelled to set up sidewalk stalls and turn to street vending to survive.

While in recent weeks some people have reconnected with the outside world using VPN configurations and circumvention tools sold by companies linked to the regime, the exorbitant cost of these services has still left tens of millions of Iranians disconnected from the global internet.

The economic damage caused by the shutdown continues to escalate.

According to Tehran-based Asr-e Iran news, Afshin Kolahi, a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, has estimated that direct losses from the internet blackout amount to $30–40 million per day, while indirect losses are estimated at $70–80 million per day.

Over the past 60 days, total economic damage has surpassed $4 billion.

One of the sectors most severely affected by the shutdown has been small businesses operating within Iran’s digital economy. Many of these businesses relied on social media platforms such as Instagram and messaging apps like Telegram for marketing, sales, and customer communication.

Reza Olfatnasab, head of Iran’s Union of Virtual Businesses, has warned of the mounting cost of the prolonged internet disruption, saying online sales in some sectors have dropped by as much as 70 percent.

He adds that around 2,000 companies have the capacity to survive for only another one or two months — a situation that, in his view, has pushed the country’s digital economy into a state of “structural instability.”

Some of these business owners, whose livelihoods depended entirely on their online operations, have in recent weeks resorted to selling their products on the streets.

May 14 (Reuters) – Iran hosted a World Cup departu

May 14 (Reuters) – Iran hosted a World Cup departure rally attended by thousands of fans in Tehran’s Enqelab Square on Wednesday night even if concerns remain about the team getting into the United States and competing at the tournament.

The players, who will continue their preparations at a training camp in Turkey next week, were cheered by the crowd as they made patriotic statements from a stage and the kit they will wear at the June 11 to July 19 tournament was unveiled.

“This is the best send-off in the last four World Cup campaigns,” Iranian FA (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj told state TV.

“The players are with the people, and the crowd stands with the country’s dignity, honour, and strength. Whatever the result, may Iran‘s flag be raised there and defended.”

Iran‘s participation in the World Cup has been in question since the U.S. and Israel started the regional war by launching air strikes on the Islamic Republic in late February.

Taj was refused entry to co-host nation Canada for the FIFA Congress two weeks ago because of his connection to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), triggering fears there may be issues for some of the Iran delegation getting into the U.S.

As in Canada, the IRGC is classified as a “terrorist entity” in the U.S. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said no one with ties to the organisation would be admitted to the country.

Iran has placed responsibility for getting the players and team officials into the U.S., where Team Melli are scheduled to play all three World Cup group matches, firmly in the hands of tournament organisers FIFA.

“Nothing has arrived yet regarding the visas. We hope it will definitely be handled within this timeframe,” Hedayat Mombeini, the FFIRI secretary-general, told state TV at the rally on Wednesday.

“FIFA has made promises, and hopefully those promises will lead to results and the players will receive their visas on time.”

Reports that some Iraq players had been refused U.S. visas, which were quickly refuted by the White House and Iraq Football Association on Wednesday, further fuelled Iranian concerns.

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