Bourse and Bazaar | Tytti Erst: In return for limits to Irans nuclear activities under the 2015 agreement, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the other sidethe United States, the EU/E3 (France, Germany and the UK), China and Russiawere supposed to lift sanctions on the country. The US opted out of this compromise in May 2018 by withdrawing ...
Press TV - The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has, in an arbitrary move, blocked and seized the official domain name of Iranian state-run newspaper "Iran", the paper's managing director says.
Mahdi Shafiei made the comments on Saturday, adding that legal efforts are underway to unblock and take back the domain "iran-...
Iran Review - A bipartisan group of two dozen American and European national security leaders issue a joint statement urging the US government to ease humanitarian trade with Iran in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with COVID-19 the disease caused by the novel coronavirus we must remember that an outbreak anywhere impacts people ...
Bloomberg | James Gibney: In his three years in office, President Donald Trump has placed more people under sanctions than he has insulted on Twitter. But his ready resort to economic punishment has put ever greater strain on a bureaucracy that was overburdened even before he took office and the more overloaded the sanctions machinery becomes, the ...
FNA - Social networking websites Facebook and Instagram both disabled the accounts of renowned Tehran University Professor and analyst Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Saturday in yet another low for the freedom of expression in the US that has already shut down social media pages of tens of Iranian analysts and officials.
My accounts on Facebook and Instagram ...
Press TV - Iran's Fars news agency says its website has been blocked after the US Treasury Department blacklisted the media group.
In a post on its Twitter account, Farsnews said that access to its .com domain had been blocked upon the US Treasury's order.
The news agency said that it had received an email from the server company, which explicitly ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Iran has sought international assistance in the investigation of the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which killed all 176 people onboard on Wednesday. But the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran threaten to prevent the involvement of American experts in the investigation of ...
Reuters - The Trump administration assured U.S. banks on Wednesday that they can temporarily process U.S. dollar transactions on a Dalian unit of Chinas biggest shipping company COSCO that Washington had imposed sanctions on over suspicions it transported oil from Iran.
The United States sanctions on Sept. 25 pushed global freight costs to record ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The Treasury Department has announced that it will operationalize a financial channel to ease humanitarian trade with Iran, after acknowledging to European officials that recent sanctions imposed on the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) risked encumbering trade in food and medicine.
The channel, ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Tyler Cullis: The Trump administration announced the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)a branch of Irans armed forcesas a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). In the White House press statement, President Trump called the designation ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Over the last two weeks, Iran has been ravaged by unprecedented floods, resulting in over 60 deaths and the devastation of whole communities. The natural disaster has only added to the the countrys woes, already reeling from an economic crisis brought about in part by the reimposition of the Trump ...
Bloomberg - A Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA aircraft stranded in Iran for more than two months because of U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic has finally flown home.
The plane, a Boeing 737 Max aircraft, landed at Stockholms Arlanda airport early on Saturday, the company said in a statement. Its a big relief to get the plane home again, spokeswoman ...
Bloomberg | Ladane Nasseri: The 737 Max aircraft made an emergency landing in Shiraz on Dec. 14 after developing engine problems while en route from Dubai to Oslo. Passengers were flown out the next day, but the stricken plane has been grounded in the ancient city at the foot of Irans Zagros mountains ever since.
Norwegian Air initially imagined ...
Tasnim The CEO of Iran Air said ATR aircraft manufacturer has requested permission from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury for the delivery of the turboprops Iran has purchased.
Farzaneh Sharafbafi told Tasnim on Saturday that the delivery of the remaining ATR turboprops to Iran requires a permission ...
Press TV- The use of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft in Iranian airlines has been put on hold for now because the Russian planemaker has failed to receive a US license for sales to the Islamic Republic, an official says.
Iran Air Tours, a subsidiary of national flag carrier IranAir, had recently signed an initial agreement to buy 20 Superjets, while ...
Radio Farda - Members of a "US military group" who visited Iran were "presumably" spies, the chairman of the Public Works Commission of Iran's parliament has said.
The group entered Iran to negotiate about obtaining OFAC permits for selling planes to Iran, Mohammad-Reza Rezaei Kouchi asserted, without mentioning any date.
OFAC, the Office of ...
CoinDesk |Leigh Cuen: On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Departments Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that two bitcoin addresses tied to Iran residents Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan were being added to its Specially Designated Nationals sanctions list, a first for the office.
Hours later, Telegram channels across Iran ...
Sputnik - Tehran has condemned Washingtons latest sanctions, calling them irrational and ineffective, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said in a statement Wednesday.
"These sanctions against individuals and legal entities are irrational and ineffective and will not bring the desired results to their authors and performers. Sooner ...
IRNA The US Department of Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 9 individuals and entities for the so-called shipping Iran oil to Syria and in return financing Hezbollah and Hamas.
In its statement which was released on Tuesday, US Treasury Department claimed that it had discovered the illicit Iran-Russia-Syria network ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: The second and final sanctions deadline of November 4 is drawing near. After this date, unilateral US sanctions on Irans financial sector will once again come into force. According to Iranian bankers and government officials, this could mean that Iran struggles to import humanitarian goods, including basic foodstuffs....
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