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...Saudi Arabia, angry that it was funding an Iranian takeover of Lebanon to add to the Islamic Republic’s dominant position in Iraq and Syria and influence in Yemen and Bahrain, cancelled a $4bn military aid...
...Hostilities between the US and Iran escalated after the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and imposed waves of sanctions on the Islamic republic....
...Other groups include the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)....
...Tension escalated further in 2018, after former president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and imposed crippling sanctions on the Islamic republic....
...These hits may well not be instigated by Iran. The Islamic Republic is reeling under US economic sanctions reimposed by Mr Trump....
...The UK accused Iran last month of selling the tanker’s oil to Syria, saying the Islamic republic had violated “international norms”....
...Tension in the Gulf has increased since the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and began tightening sanctions in a bid to squeeze the Islamic republic’s oil exports....
...The next stage of the 30-year dispute between the US and Iran is beginning with the imposition last week of a new round of sanctions on the Islamic republic....
...As the two regional powers ramp up their battle for influence — with the US under President Donald Trump throwing its weight behind Riyadh to counter the Islamic republic — Yemen’s war has become the principal...
...Mr Jafari said Iran would consider enforcement of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) — which Mr Trump signed into law in August to enact new sanctions on Iran, North Korea...
...Mr Assad’s Syria is a valuable asset in Iran’s neo imperium from Baghdad to Beirut, the Islamic Republic’s opening to the Mediterranean....
...He said Riyadh would not allow the Islamic Republic to undermine the Sunni kingdom’s security....
...The UAE is also a fierce critic of Iran, claiming that the Islamic republic uses proxies among Shia movements to destabilise the Arab world....
...over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme....
...member of the Kurdistan Islamic Union....
...And Nasrallah has made his fighters the foot soldiers of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, under the wing of the al-Quds brigade of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps....
...Islamic Republic’s neighbours and the world can live....
...Not surprisingly, the message sent to the Kurds by Iran and Turkey but also, quite firmly, by the US, was this: no one was ready for a Kurdish republic....
...Riyadh, the region’s oil-rich political heavyweight, is fuming at the speed with which US and western officials are pursuing talks with Iran, its historic foe, over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme...
...To comply with global sanctions on Iran, Indian rice imports to the Islamic republic are conducted on a swap basis for crude sold to India....
...In atmospheric terms, attitudes towards the Islamic Republic are starting to change, as the US and Iran start dancing their diplomatic pas de deux....
...Hassan Rohani, Iran’s president-elect, has pledged greater transparency for the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear programme and said he would work to win back the trust of world powers and ease international...
...And while relations between the west and Iran are improving, the Islamic republic cannot export more than 1m b/d....
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