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Iran Strikes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz, Forcing UN to Halt Evacuation of 11,000 Stranded Sailors

DUBAI, July 3 -- Three days was all it lasted. On Tuesday, the United Nations' International Maritime Organization launched what it described as an orderly evacuation of roughly 600 ships and more tha... Read More


Doha Built a Breach Channel and a Goods Arrangement. The Nuclear File Didn't Open.

New Delhi, July 3 -- DOHA - Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi emerged from Qatar's capital on Wednesday evening and said that by Thursday, a communication channel would be open between ... Read More


Iran Sold 40 Million Barrels of Oil. Trump Said Denuclearization Was Going Well. Neither Side Was Wrong.

New Delhi, July 3 -- 40 million barrels of crude oil exported since the Islamabad MoU was signed 15 days earlier, sold at prices 20 percent above what Iran was receiving before the conflict. On the sa... Read More


Putin Sent Medvedev. China Sent a Legislator. The Proxies Stayed Home. Tehran Began Burying Khamenei.

New Delhi, July 3 -- six days, two nations, two of Islam's holiest cities, a six-hundred-kilometer procession through Iran before burial at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad on July 9. Iranian officials... Read More


Israel Was Plotting to Assassinate Iran's Nuclear Negotiators Mid-Talks - believes the US

New Delhi, July 3 -- DOHA - A detailed Iranian assassination plan targeting senior Israeli military officers was intercepted by Qatari intelligence, according to officials with knowledge of the matter... Read More


Iran's Parliament Is Running Its Own Deadline. It Converges With the MoU on 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


Iran's Parliament Is Writing the Hormuz Toll Into Statute. The MoU Window Is 38 Days.

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


Iran Sold 40 to 50 Million Barrels in Two Weeks at a 20 Percent Premium. The Gains Disappear if the Deal Fails.

New Delhi, July 3 -- Iran is selling more oil at higher prices than it could two weeks ago. The US Treasury issued a sweeping sanctions waiver on June 22 authorizing Iranian oil sales through August ... Read More


Trump Says Iran's Denuclearization Is 'Moving Along Well.' The Talks Covered Shipping Fees.

DOHA, July 3 -- The talks in Qatar ended Wednesday with a statement from mediators that "positive progress" had been made. President Donald Trump told reporters on the same day that "the denuclearizat... Read More


20-Year-Old American Arrested in Jerusalem on Suspicion of Spying for Iran

JERUSALEM, July 3 -- For three weeks, he was a name no one was allowed to know. A 20-year-old American citizen, arrested in Jerusalem on June 9 by a joint team of Israel Police officers and Shin Bet a... Read More