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Hoping for regional integration, Pezeshkian in Azerbaijan for ECO summit
Press TV
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President Masoud Pezeshkian has traveled to Azerbaijan to participate in the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), emphasizing Iran’s commitment to fostering regional collaboration and stability. President Pezeshkian landed...
Iran, Pakistan FMs hold friendly talks in Azerbaijan
Mehr News Agency
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July 4, 2025
Iranian and Pakistani diplomats met on the sidelines of the 7th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Azerbaijan. The summit brings together leaders from across the ECO member states, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
Iran's Pezeshkian meets Azerbaijan's Aliyev (+VIDEO)
Mehr News Agency
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July 4, 2025
President Masoud Pezeshkian has traveled to Azerbaijan to participate in the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), emphasizing Iran’s commitment to fostering regional collaboration and stability. President Pezeshkian landed...
Iranian Cyber Threats Surge Amid Geopolitical Tension
Information Security Buzz
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July 4, 2025
Cyberattacks linked to Iranian threat groups are on the rise, according to a new threat intelligence report from security provider Blumira. The report highlights how escalating geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran are driving a surge in...
US targets Iran’s oil trade and Hezbollah in new round of sanctions
Daily Times
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July 4, 2025
The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on a network accused of smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil and targeting a Hezbollah-linked financial institution. The Treasury Department announced these actions on Thursday, aiming to cut...
Your Weekly Recap: Housing prices face upward trajectory, 10 more years for Cattenom reactors, and Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog
RTL Today
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July 4, 2025
Your Weekly Recap for 30 June–4 July 2025. Here are five things you should know at the end of this week: End of housing support leads to new rise in home prices Flaws in renovated Findel runway spark safety concerns, possible legal action Cracks...
After ceasefire, Iranian government targets its own people
Mission Network News
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July 4, 2025
Iran (MNN) — Ceasefires are meant to bring peace; instead, the Iranian nation is facing the enraged regime’s payback. In June, Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire after an intense exchange of fire. However, instead of bringing peace, it brought...
Clash against World Cup qualifiers Iran - a true test of Harimau Malaya’s progress - Cklamovski
The Sun Daily
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July 4, 2025
HARIMAU Malaya head coach Peter Cklamovski is taking on the challenge that awaits his team at the upcoming CAFA Nations Cup, especially the clash against tournament favourites and World Cup qualifiers Iran. Describing the showdown as a major...
Media Celebrate International Aggression Against Iran
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
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July 3, 2025
Aggression is widely understood as the most serious form of the illegal use of force under international law. At the post–World War II Nuremberg Trials, British Judge Norman Birkett said: To initiate a war of aggression…is not only an...
Nuclear Iran is best bet for peace
The Indian Express
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July 4, 2025
The proliferation of nuclear arms is a net loss for global peace and security. It raises the risks of accidental war, empowers authoritarian regimes and undermines decades of nonproliferation efforts. From both a moral and strategic standpoint, it...
Why Don’t the Iranian People Rise Up?
Foreign Policy
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The war between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran last month did not produce any sign of regime change in Iran. Israel, of course, made it explicitly clear from the outset that its objective was not regime change in Iran, but that its...
Iran says it is committed to NPT, slams Germany’s support for Israel
Al Jazeera
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July 3, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is committed to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), dismissing speculation that Iran would leave the accord in response to major attacks by Israel and the United States...
Should Iran have the bomb?
The Express Tribune
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July 3, 2025
Listen to article Ten days after the ceasefire between Iran and Israel the consensus among most observers, including the IAEA, is that Iran has saved enough fissile material and the capacity to enrich it to weapons-grade in a matter of weeks and...
Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
Military.com
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July 3, 2025
The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken...
Iraqi militias kept quiet in the Israel-Iran war. Will it last?
The New Arab
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July 3, 2025
In Iraq, where US and Iranian interests exist in uneasy proximity, escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran are often felt on the ground. During last month’s 12-day Israel-Iran war, which entailed Israeli and American strikes on Iranian...
NATO faces new threat as climate helps submarines slip benea...
Modern Ghana
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When NATO leaders met last week, they repeated familiar warnings about Russia, China and Iran. But one threat did not make the main agenda – climate change. A new study shows rising temperatures could quietly change how submarines are hunted under...
A unique Iowa-Iran connection offers hope for Middle East peace
Des Moines Register - Iowa
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Kenneth Quinn grew up in Dubuque. He served for 32 years as a Foreign Service Officer culminating with his assignment as U.S. ambassador to Cambodia. He was president of the World Food Prize from 2000 to 2020. With President Donald Trump set to...
Mayor of Haifa says Israel’s key oil refinery existential threat to Haifa after Iranian strike
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 3, 2025
Damage at the Bazan Group oil refinery in the Haifa Bay after it was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile overnight on June 15, 2025. Haifa, July 3 (RHC)-- The mayor of Haifa says Israel’s key oil refinery, Bazan, poses “a serious and existential...
Husband says he will continue to back Trump despite ICE detaining his Iranian wife
The Independent
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July 3, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
What to expect from Iran’s approach to Africa after its war with Israel
Atlantic Council
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July 3, 2025
The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, which the United States joined with airstrikes against the Iranian nuclear program, has shaken up the foreign-policy calculus for the Islamic Republic. What happens next will have implications for...