AFTER IRAN & CHINA, US IMPOSES NEW SANCTIONS ON CUBA CITING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

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• The US on Friday imposed sanctions of Cuba’s Interior Ministry and its leader, accusing them of serious human rights violations

• These new sanctions will be implemented under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and directed agains...

US PLANNING TO IMPOSE NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN RELATED TO METALS, CONVENTIONAL ARMS

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• Sources state that Trump has imposed on the Iranian economy in an attempt to force Tehran into a new recognition on prohibiting its nuclear program as its nuclear program

• Recently the Trump administration had blacklisted 12 Iranian companies including ...

S. KOREA AND IRAN UNDER TALKS ON RESOLVING FROZEN ASSETS AND RELEASING SHIP

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• S. Korea and Iran under talks on resolving frozen assets and releasing ship.
• The South Korean delegation for talks was led by First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun.
• Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps seized a...

U.S. TO DESIGNATE YEMEN’S HUTHI REBELS AS A TERRORIST GROUP: MIKE POMPEO

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• This move is likely to complicate the Biden administration’s efforts to restart diplomacy with Iran and to reassess the US relationship with Saudi Arabia

• While Iran has warm relations with the Huthis, Saudi has led a brutal offensive in Yemen

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IMPOSES NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN

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• The US Treasury Department in a statement named Kaifeng Pingmei New Carbon Materials Technology Co. Ltd (KFCC), a Chinese company

• On the other hand, the Pasargad Steel Complex and the Gilan Steel Complex Co. are among the 12 blacklisted Iranian compani...

S. KOREAN ANTI-PIRACY UNIT BEGINS OPERATIONS NEAR THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

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• S. Korean anti-piracy unit begins operations near the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iran had seized a South Korean oil tanker named MT Hanuk Chemi.
• The vessel is said to have been traveling from Saudi Arabia to the UAE.
• Te...

IRANIAN CYBER ACTORS BEHIND ONLINE DEATH THREATS TO US ELECTION OFFICIALS: FBI

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• Website named “enemiesofthepeople” contained private information and pictures of the government and private sector officials involved in the management of US election

• According to the sources, former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrast...

FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRAN SAYS WESTERN NATIONS BACKED ISRAEL FOR KILLING MOHSEN FAKHRIZADEH

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• Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blamed Israel for murdering its top atomic researcher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh amid the quietness of the West and approached Iran's Gulf neighbors not to help Israel against Iran

For wh...

AMID TENSIONS WITH IRAN, U.S. TO WITHDRAW EMBASSY PERSONNEL ON TEMPORARY BASIS

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• This withdrawal would take place in the lead-up to the January 3 anniversary of the US' killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani because of concerns about retaliations 

• It is being said that the US government is expecting possible retaliatio...

U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN PUTS FORWARD NEW DEMANDS FOR IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

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• The Biden administration is planning to extend the duration of restrictions on Iran’s production of fissile material that could be used in manufacturing of a nuclear bomb

• The report said Iran would also have to address its malign regional activit...

UAE DISGRUNTLED OVER IRANIAN SCIENTIST KILLING, WARNS WAVERING OF PEACE IN THE REGION

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• The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, whose attaches with Iran have been vigorously stressed over ongoing years, censured a week ago's death of a top Iranian atomic researcher and asked nations in the area to dodge rivalry and unsteady acts
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MOORE GILBERT DETAINED IN IRAN BECAUSE OF ISRAELI BOYFRIEND, SOURCES REVEALED

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• Iranian specialists kept British-Australian, Kylie Moore-Gilbert after finding she was involved with an Israeli, which fuelled unmerited doubts that she was a covert agent, the Sydney Morning Herald provided details, referring to different conciliator...

U.S. SANCTIONS FIVE COMPANIES FROM CHINA & RUSSIA IN LINKS WITH IRAN

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• The United States has sanctioned five companies in China and Russia over the claims that they were promoting Iran’s missile program

• The Treasury Department has plans to announce more sanctions on Iran in upcoming weeks in relations to arms, human...

THAILAND RELEASES PRISONERS WHO PLOTTED 2012 BOMBINGS

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• Thailand conceded the freeing of three Iranians it imprisoned over a 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok, in a declaration that came after Teheran liberated an Australian-British teacher detained for supposed spying

The realm's amendments ...

AUSTRALIAN KYLIE MOORE-GILBERT, PRISONER OF IRAN SINCE 2018 RELEASED IN EXCHANGE OF 3 IRAN NATIONALS

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• Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Australian-British scholarly confined by Iran on surveillance charges, has been delivered in a detainee trade for three Iranians

In what will be viewed as a triumph for Iranian state prisoner taking by a few ...

UAE’S DISTANCES ITSELF FROM PAKISTAN, A STANCE THAT COULD CHANGE THE ARAB WORLD DYNAMICS

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• Since the recent three months, UAE has been quickly acclimatizing the brand Israel in the nation. By the primary seven-day stretch of September 2020, the lodging and accommodation area in Dubai was equipping with Israeli food, to keep an eye on the de...

IRANIAN PRESIDENT PREDICTS ROUGH PATCH AHEAD OF US ELECTION RESULT

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• Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said it doesn't make a difference who wins a shockingly close US official political decision and that his nation has gotten ready for "troublesome conditions" later on

In a broadcast...

AFTER FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT MAKES SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRANIAN HACKERS

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• According to the statement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday, it was successful in detecting attempts by the hacking group called Phosphorus to trick ex-government officials, academics and policy experts

• Iranian hackers targeted over 100 prominent peopl...

THREATENING EMAILS TO U.S. VOTERS LIKELY FROM IRANIAN HACKERS: FACEBOOK

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• While U.S. voters received thousands of threatening emails last week, and a video was released online that purported to show hackers breaking into a voter registration system just days before the US presidential election

• Facebook said it had suspended ...

K-MUSIC FEST TO ENTHRAL AUDIENCE IN HYBRID MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA IN LONDON AMIDST PANDEMIC

• The annual K-Music festival in London will incept this week for a 17-day musical extravaganza as a hybrid event, combining live performances and YouTube live streaming amid the global coronavirus pandemic, its organizer said Monday.
• This year's K-Music 2020 celebrates the 7...