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Iran Sold 50 Million Barrels in Two Weeks at a 20% Premium. The Window That Made It Possible Closes August 21.

New Delhi, July 2 -- 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


Iran's Parliament Is Writing Hormuz Control Into Law. The Bill Doesn't Need the Doha Deal to Pass.

New Delhi, July 2 -- 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 Has Nine Bombs' Worth of 60% Uranium and Won't Ship It Out. The Deal Has No Answer for This.

New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - The 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent purity is the physical object at the center of every Iran nuclear argument. It exists. Its location is disputed. Its d... Read More


Iran Hit the IMO Corridor, Froze UN Evacuations, and Agreed to a Week of Quiet. The Week Ends Before Doha Reconvenes.

New Delhi, July 2 -- MUSCAT - The corridor hugging Oman's southern coastline was the route that wasn't supposed to get hit. The International Maritime Organization and Oman had established it as an al... Read More


Iran Prepares Historic State Funeral for Khamenei, Body in Cold Storage Since February Strikes

New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - His body has been preserved in cold storage since February 28, the day US and Israeli strikes killed him in the opening hours of a war that has not fully ended. On Saturd... Read More


Amnesty Says RSF Conducted Ethnic Cleansing in El Fasher, Killing Hundreds in Zaghawa Assault

NAIROBI, July 2 -- The woman was 58 years old, and she walked through El Fasher after the Rapid Support Forces had finished. What she counted was nearly a thousand bodies, including children. Her test... Read More


Mojtaba Khamenei Approved the Islamabad MoU. His Statement Also Pre-Built Iran's Exit.

New Delhi, July 2 -- TEHRAN - When Mojtaba Khamenei released his written statement on June 18, one day after the Islamabad MoU was signed, his approval came pre-loaded with the conditions of its own r... Read More


Iran's Planned Hormuz Fee Violates US Sanctions Law. Doha Ended Without Addressing That.

On April 29, July 2 -- pay the Hormuz service fee Iran intends to charge, or risk Iran refusing passage. Under the current state of US sanctions law, paying that fee would expose the operator, its ban... Read More


Doha Can Agree to Reopen Hormuz. Only Mine Sweepers Can Actually Do It.

New Delhi, July 2 -- DUBAI - Eight thousand seafarers are stranded inside the Gulf, waiting. The problem is not a diplomatic one. The Islamabad MoU established two temporary corridors through the Stra... Read More


Iran's Hormuz Toll Bill Is Moving Through Parliament. The Target Date Is the Week Before August 21.

New Delhi, July 2 -- 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