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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 25, 2020
Nahid Yoshinari: 'I love to involve the audience in the music'
An announcer and translator at NHK, Nahid Yoshinari is happy to share her Persian culture with people in Japan.
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WORLD / Society
Oct 24, 2020
A #MeToo awakening stirs in Iran
Three years into the global #MeToo movement, women who say they have been sexually assaulted are improbably going public in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2020
Arab states should avoid an arms race with Iran
The best way for the Saudis and other Arab states to respond to an armed Iran is to work with the U.S. to create an effective secondary sanctions regime.
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WORLD
Oct 18, 2020
'Made in Iran' thrives in economy Trump tried to crush
There can’t have been many worse times to start a new business in Iran. Even before officials in the Islamic Republic alerted the public to a major outbreak of the coronavirus, the country started the year in a tense standoff with the U.S. while its economy was being crippled by sanctions.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2020
Selling advanced fighter jets to the UAE is all about Israel
The problem with providing the F-35 to Arab states is it might erode Israel's QME, a U.S. assurance that it will not sell its most advanced arms to Israel's opponents.
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WORLD
Sep 20, 2020
U.S. says U.N. sanctions on Iran are back as allies and rivals object
The U.S. said international sanctions on Iran are automatically "snapping back” in a move that most nations say the Trump administration doesn’t have the authority to demand since quitting a 2015 nuclear deal two years ago.
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WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2020
In break with past, UAE and Bahrain sign U.S.-brokered deals with Israel
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel, becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo, in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 14, 2020
Once an American foe, now a friend: OPEC turns 60
Shifts in global politics and a surge in America's oil production have transformed the group.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2020
Trump’s ‘ending’ the Iraq war is a gift to Iran
When I was supreme allied commander at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, we had a small training mission in Iraq. U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration was in the process of drawing down the massive U.S. troop presence there, which peaked at around 170,000.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2020
Who says Iran is impervious to pressure?
Critics of the Trump administration’s sanctions campaign against Iran have long argued that the Islamic Republic is impervious to pressure. This claim never had a strong foundation: After all, extreme duress — prolonged diplomatic isolation, coupled with crippling economic sanctions — forced Tehran’s...
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WORLD
Aug 20, 2020
Trump pushes U.N. to renew Iran sanctions in blow to nuclear deal
The move will set the U.S. on a collision course with other powers, including key allies, who say the U.S. doesn't have the authority to reimpose international sanctions.
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WORLD
Aug 12, 2020
Trump risks crisis at U.N. by turning to Iran deal he shredded
Moves to reimpose sanctions could leave the United States in an isolated position.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2020
Would a new Iran deal be tougher than the one Trump left?
A president desperate for a win isn't always in the best position to negotiate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 2, 2020
Iran says it has detained U.S.-based opposition leader over 2008 bomb attack
Iran said on Saturday its intelligence services have detained a U.S.-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing and of plotting other attacks, and that he is being held in Iran.
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WORLD
Jul 27, 2020
Iran moves U.S. aircraft carrier mock-up to mouth of Gulf
Iran has moved a mock-up U.S. aircraft carrier to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, satellite images show, suggesting it will use the look-alike vessel for target practice in war games in a Gulf shipping channel vital to world oil exports.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2020
Saving the Iran nuclear deal
Before two decades of diplomacy are squandered, all parties involved must step back from the precipice.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 19, 2020
Iranian health officials play down president's figure of 25 million people infected
Iranian health officials sought on Sunday to play down the president’s estimate that some 25 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, saying it was based on serological blood tests that measure exposure to the illness and that cannot be relied on to show the current state of disease....
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WORLD
Jul 4, 2020
Iran threatens retaliation after what it calls possible cyberattack on nuclear site
Iran will retaliate against any country that carries out cyberattacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defense said, after a fire at its Natanz plant which some Iranian officials said may have been caused by cybersabotage.
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WORLD
Jun 24, 2020
Iran says it's ready for talks if U.S. apologizes over nuclear pact
Iran would be open to talks with the United States if Washington apologizes for exiting a 2015 nuclear deal and compensates Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, cautioning that U.S. calls for discussions were insincere.

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