Sixty-Three Clerics Told Iran's New Supreme Leader He Approved the Wrong Deal. Then State TV Cut the Feed.

New Delhi, July 3 -- TEHRAN - The 88 members of Iran's Assembly of Experts are the only body in the Islamic Republic authorized to choose and remove a supreme leader. On June 29, sixty-three of them -... Read More

Iran's Parliament Speaker Said IAEA Access to Bombed Sites Is 'False.' Trump Said Denuclearization Is 'Moving Along Well.'

New Delhi, July 3 -- TEHRAN/DOHA - Three parties addressed the question of IAEA access to Iran's bombed nuclear sites after the same Doha round produced the same "positive progress" statement last wee... Read More

Iran Is Writing the Hormuz Toll Into Law. The Diplomatic and Legislative Clocks Both Expire August 21.

New Delhi, July 3 -- TEHRAN - Iran is not waiting for the Doha talks to conclude before writing its control of the Strait of Hormuz into law. The parliament's National Security Commission approved the... Read More

The Ceasefire Opened the Strait. The War Risk Insurance Market Has Not.

New Delhi, July 2 -- LONDON - A $150 million crude carrier transiting the Strait of Hormuz is paying up to $7.5 million per voyage in war risk insurance, an amount that at pre-crisis rates would have ... Read More

The Gulf States Lobbied Hardest for the Deal. The Deal Left the Strait Unresolved.

New Delhi, July 2 -- DOHA - Three months before Qatar agreed to host the negotiations that produced the framework now running through its 60-day diplomatic window, Iran's missiles set fire to Ras Laff... Read More

Iran Says Qatar Is Releasing $6 Billion. Vance Says the U.S. Controls the Spending. Qatar's Foreign Ministry Says the Funds Haven't Moved.

New Delhi, July 2 -- a procurement queue run through Qatar's Central Bank, delivering goods to Iran based on needs Iran would communicate in advance. Those two descriptions are not the same arrangeme... Read More

Iran Warned Against Striking the Funeral. Mojtaba Khamenei Has Not Been Seen Since His Father Was Killed.

New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - Mojtaba Khamenei's wife died in the same airstrike that killed his father on February 28. He was injured. He has not been seen in public since - not at a state function, ... Read More

Mojtaba Khamenei Said He Was Against the MoU. He Allowed It Anyway. Iran's Establishment Is Not Finished Arguing.

New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran endorsed the memorandum of understanding with the United States by his own account as a concession to his president, no... Read More

Washington Sent Negotiators to Doha and a Second Amphibious Fleet to the Gulf on the Same Day

With Boxer's arrival, July 2 -- ARABIAN SEA - The USS Boxer, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship carrying the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in the Middle East on June 30. The following morn... Read More

Ship Runs Aground on Unauthorized Hormuz Route as Iran-Oman Joint Committee Moves to Enforce Navigation Regime

New Delhi, July 2 -- MUSCAT - A foreign container ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after using a route Iran had not authorized, the latest demonstration that the Islamic Republic'... Read More

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