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...Next, a US strike in Baghdad killed a senior commander of an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, dealing another blow to the Axis of Resistance. It was then that Iran began striking out directly....
...against Israel, under Iranian influence,” said Yaakov Lappin, an Israel-based defence analyst....
...by Iran....
...Russia may be providing Iran with equipment such as helicopters and air defences, he said....
...(In the 2015 French spy drama, Le bureau des légendes, a young female intelligence officer who is attracting the amorous attention of an Iranian scientist uses the same technique....
...“This was bound to be seen in Iran as an action in support of US sanctions against Iran rather than in support of EU sanctions against Syria.”...
...Britain does not support the US sanctions on Iran and has been working with France and Germany to offer Iran economic relief in a bid to save the nuclear accord....
...Dalia Dassa Kaye, an Iran expert at Rand Corporation, a US think-tank, says the attacks have dented the prospect of diplomacy but that co-operation between western allies has also been made more difficult...
...Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran, has reiterated the administration’s threats to use sanctions against “any illicit purchases of Iranian crude oil”, but the lack of support for Mr Trump...
...But he said the two countries would also “discuss irritants” over both Russia and Iran. One point to resolve concerns military co-operation....
...A large tile for an Iranian tomb, with Koranic script and a border of pale-blue birds, was not offensive when it was made in Kashan around 1308....
...The fear is that with Saudi Arabia looking to check Iran’s Lebanese influence via Hizbollah, a Saudi-Iranian proxy war looms in the only country in the Middle East where Riyadh and Tehran had been coexisting...
...The aerospace and defence company said the agreements also included an unspecified number of Chinook helicopters....
...Helicopters landed nearby, suggesting some Iranian or Iraqi complicity in the operation....
...“The Saudis think every Shia Arab is a pawn of the Iranians,” said Mr Jeffrey....
...missile programme and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corporation....
...This is a priority for the UK too as we support our allies in the Gulf states to push back against Iran’s aggressive efforts to build an arc of influence from Tehran through to the Mediterranean....
...Al-Araby published a cartoon depicting American helicopters holding the people of Raqqa hostage beside an image of an Isis member doing the same to a condemned man....
...of international sanctions — in guarantees to support trade....
...An internal British memo surfaced last week saying that to “protect London as a financial centre” ministers would not support trade sanctions....
...I experienced the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, which had transformed Iranian society from what I remembered as “Persia” to the “Islamic Republic of Iran”....
...Japan has sought pledges from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to raise production to make up for any Iranian shortfall, while India’s refiners are diversifying their oil supplies away from Iran...
...It needs to focus even more on infrastructure renewal....
...The meeting gave birth to Farsi1, a satellite channel co-owned by Moby and News Corporation that beams dubbed shows into Iran and the Middle East....
...able to support....
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