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Democrats Warn Biden Administration Against Lifting Iran Sanctions

Democratic lawmakers are increasingly growing their opposition to the ongoing negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program after an apparent reluctance to publicly criticize the US administration during the negotiations that began more than a year ago. US Senator Joe Manchin detailed his concerns with the ongoing negotiations between the…

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Analysis-Politics, not substance, seen guiding U.S. and Iran on terror listing

One of the last obstacles to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - Tehran's demand to remove its Revolutionary Guards from a U.S. terrorism list - is more an issue of politics than substance, analysts said.

Reuters

Israel Welcomes US Stance from IRGC

The Israeli government welcomed an alleged US decision to keep the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its list of terrorist organizations. The government asserted that the move is significant and indicates that Washington is beginning to understand the position of regional countries that have suffered from terrorist attacks. The…

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Senior US Official: Biden Won’t Remove Iran’s Guards From Terror List

The Biden administration plans to reject an Iranian demand that the United States lift its designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization as a condition for renewing the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior administration official told The Washington Post. "The onus is on Iran whether we…

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President Raisi Says Iran Will Not Retreat from 'Nuclear Rights'

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday Tehran would not give up its right to develop its nuclear industry for peaceful purposes, and all parties involved in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear accord should respect this. Eleven months of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna…

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Pro-Khamenei Scholar: Nuclear Deal Won’t Stop Attacks against US Forces

Tehran’s Friday prayer interim imam, Kazem Seddiqi, ruled out any link between the Iranian nuclear talks and the halt of attacks against US forces in the region. The attacks against US forces will “continue” until the end of their “illegal” presence in the region, Iranian websites quoted Seddiqi as saying.…

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Top US General Against Removing Iran's Quds Force from Terrorist List

The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that he does not support removing the Quds Force, the foreign arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. "I believe the IRGC is a terrorist organization, and I do…

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Iran’s Quds Force should stay on US ‘terrorist’ list: Top general

General Mark Milley tells lawmakers it is his ‘personal opinion’ that the IRGC’s Quds Force should not be delisted.

Al Jazeera

Top U.S. general does not support removing Iran's Quds force from terrorism list

The top U.S. general said on Thursday that he does not support removing Iran's Quds Force, an arm of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from a list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Reuters

Can Iran and the US finalise their nuclear talks?

Iran and the US continue to push each other to make concessions as they face internal pressure.

Al Jazeera

Iranian Militias Deployed in Central Syria after Russia's Withdrawal

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Fourth Division led by Major General Maher al-Assad, have reinforced their military presence in the Mahin military warehouse in the eastern countryside of Homs - the second largest arms and ammunition depot in Syria.

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Iran Says Nuclear Talks ‘Hostage’ to US Domestic Politics

Tehran accused Washington of holding the Vienna talks “hostage” to its internal affairs and partisan “swaps.” It held the White House responsible for “prolonging” the negotiation process, demanding a response to the proposals the European coordinator recently brought from Tehran to Washington. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Monday urged…

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Iran Insists on ‘Punishing Those Responsible’ for Soleimani’s Death

Iranian Attorney-General Jafar Montazeri on Sunday said that his country would continue to follow-up on the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani by a US army airstrike.

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Ukraine war should not hinder Iran deal revival, US analysts say

Amid criticism of Russia’s involvement in nuclear talks, JCPOA supporters say US must press on with diplomacy.

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Axios

Blinken asks Bennett for his Iran deal alternative

Israel, together with its Arab allies in the region, is against a U.S. return to the nuclear deal.

Al Jazeera

US imposes sanctions over Iran’s ballistic missile programme

Tehran has condemned the curbs, which target agent and companies that US says obtained supplies for Iran’s programme.

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US Imposes Sanctions on Key Actors in Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iran-based man and his network of companies it accused of helping Tehran obtain materials for its ballistic missile program, acting after missile attacks by suspected Iranian-backed proxies on countries in the region. In a statement issued as talks on reviving the…

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Iraq’s Kurds Face Iranian Resistance to Energy Development, PM Says

The development of oil and gas in Iraq's northern Kurdish region may not be in the interest of major regional energy producer Iran, Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Tuesday. Attacks on the region's capital Erbil and the federal government's legal actions have demonstrated the resistance to development in…

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The Hindu

The JCPOA continues to be elusive

The Ukraine conflict has complicated talks on the Iran nuclear deal

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Iran Struck Iraq Target over Gas Talks Involving Israel

A nascent plan for Iraq's Kurdistan region to supply gas to Turkey and Europe - with Israeli help - is part of what angered Iran into striking the Kurdish capital Erbil with ballistic missiles this month, Iraqi and Turkish officials say, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The March 13…

The Guardian - AU

‘A nightmare’: Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s 804 days as a victim of Iran’s hostage diplomacy

Two years after the British-Australian academic was released from Tehran’s Evin prison, she remains marked by her ordeal and anxious that western governments have no better strategies to respond to Iran’s ‘blackmail’

Reuters

Iran struck Iraq target over gas talks involving Israel - officials

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Iranian FM Faces Criticism Despite Holding onto IRGC Delisting

Iran’s demand from the US to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its terrorist list has transformed from an unresolved issue at the Vienna talks to an item for internal controversy among conservatives in the cleric-led country. Controversy is raging in Tehran despite Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian…

Tribune News Service

US says Iran nuclear deal not imminent amid deadlock over IRGC

The U.S. said the revival of a nuclear deal with Iran may not happen soon following recent requests from Tehran, including that Washington removes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of terrorist organizations.

The Guardian - UK

Iran will never acquire nuclear weapons, US promises Israel

Antony Blinken seeks to reassure Israel and Gulf allies ahead of possible renewal of nuclear deal

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