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  • Who Are the Hazaras and What Are They Escaping?

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/09/24 Hazaras are a mainly Shi'ite community, several thousand of whom have fled to Sweden in recent years to escape abuse and poverty in marginalized communities in Afghanistan and Iran. Often singled out because of their religion, Hazaras were persecuted by the Sunni Taliban during its 1996-2001 policy in Afghanistan. A lot of fled to Iran and Pakistan, where rights groups say they are still persecuted.

  • France asks EU partners for new sanctions on Iran

    IRAN, 2016/01/28 France has asked its European Union partners to consider new sanctions on Iran for its recent missile tests, officials have told The Associated Press, even as Paris welcomed the president of the Islamic Republic, which is flush with funds from the lifting of other sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program. The ambiguous signals emerging Wednesday from France came as President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate elected in 2013, signed billions of dollars in business deals on an before stop in Italy and met with Pope Francis in the initial such Iranian foray into Europe since 1999. France hopes for similarly lucrative deals during Rouhani's two-day visit, along with regional peacemaking efforts as the once-pariah national emerges from decades of isolation.

  • Turkey should mediate between Iran, Saudi Arabia

    IRAN, 2016/01/11 Turkey should mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, said the former chief of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, currently MP from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish Turkyurduhaber online newspaper reported. Ihsanoglu went on to add that the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran may lead to bloody consequences, and Turkey can greatly suffer from them as well. Ihsanoglu said that the Turkish parliament should instantly establish a appropriate commission to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran soured next execution of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric, by the Kingdom along with other 46 people, which was followed by a strong turmoil from Iran.

  • Djibouti cuts diplomatic relations with Iran

    IRAN, 2016/01/08 Djibouti said Wednesday it has cut diplomatic relations with Iran amid a diplomatic crisis with ally Saudi Arabia. The tiny Horn of Africa country is a strategic port on the Gulf of Aden with a key position on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf has "severed diplomatic ties with Iran," a government statement read.

  • Kuwait recalls ambassador from Iran over Saudi row

    IRAN, 2016/01/08 Kuwait became Tuesday the new Gulf Arab national to recall its ambassador from Iran to turmoil attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic republic. It did not, however, expel Tehran's ambassador or downgrade the level of diplomatic relationship with Iran. The announcement comes next Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Bahrain severed ties with predominantly Shiite Iran this week.UAE has recalled its ambassador, downgraded ties with the Islamic republic to protest attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions.

  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English

  • Arbitration Court to resolve Turkey-Iran price dispute

    IRAN, 2015/04/06 The International Court of Arbitration will make a decision on Ankara’s suit towards Tehran concerning the price of Iranian gas supplied to Turkey in May 2015, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz said, TRT Haber reported Apr.6. Ankara hopes that Iran will offer Turkey new acceptable gas prices, and this issue will be included in the schedule of the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Tehran, which is scheduled for April 7, he said. Before, Yildiz said that Ankara and Tehran will discuss the price on Iran’s gas supplied to Turkey. He as well said that Iran urged Turkey to withdraw the writ from the International Court of Arbitration, which is unacceptable for Ankara.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Mohammad Ali Najafi

    IRAN, 2013/12/01 The chief of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Mohammad Ali Najafi voiced Tehran's readiness to host additional Syrian tourists. In a conference with visiting Syrian Minister of Tourism Besher Yazji, Najafi stressed the need for expansion of Tehran-Damascus cooperation in cultural and tourism fields. Referring to Iran-Syria good relations, Najafi further expressed hope that the existing problems facing the brotherly country of Syria would be resolved any minute at this time, the Islamic republic news agency reported.

  • New Iranian President Calls For "Constructive Engagement"

    IRAN, 2013/09/21 Following the lead of Russian President Vladimir Putin, new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made a direct address to the American people in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, pledging to engage in constructive interaction with the world. In the article published by the Washington Post on Thursday, Rouhani claimed that the "age of blood feuds" is over. Rouhani, who was elected in May and is seen as much additional politically moderate than his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, argued that the international community needs to move beyond a zero-sum, Cold War mentality that he said "leads to everyone's loss."
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