Foreign Policy

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran won’t stop with spreading its influence in the Middle East despite President Donald Trump’s pressure on Tehran to curb its regional activities, Reuters reported. “Iran will […]

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The U.K. should back U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to slap strict sanctions on Iran rather than stand by the 2015 agreement to curb the country’s nuclear program, the American envoy to London said in […]

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Sanctions planned by Washington against Moscow over the nerve-agent attack of a former spy living in Britain could be treated as a declaration of an economic war, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Friday, […]

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President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he authorized a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey amid a growing diplomatic dispute between the two countries that is causing a currency crisis for Turkish President […]

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Both China and Russia didn’t agree with the U.S. decision to impose sanctions on countries that have trade with Iran. The condemnation doesn’t come as a surprise since both countries have close ties that they […]

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Republican Senator Rand Paul has delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, AP/TIME informs. Paul, who defended Trump regarding his meeting with Putin last month in Helsinki, has been visiting […]

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Over the past few weeks, record temperatures, power outages, and water shortages, along with a 50 percent rise in the price of some food items, have triggered scattered protests across Iran, Bloomberg writes. As bad […]

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President Donald Trump’s administration decided to impose new sanctions on Russia over Moscow’s alleged use of a nerve agent against an ex-British spy. The Hill reported that the State Department said in a statement on […]

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Turkey announced that it won’t stop buying natural gas from Iran because it has a long-term supply contract. According to Reuters, Turkey’s energy minister announced Turkey’s decision on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump […]

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As the trade war between U.S. and China is escalating Beijing has announced another round of retaliatory tariffs. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday stated that it will impose 25 percent tariffs on $16 […]

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President Trump compared the growing U.S. economy to a “fine-tuned machine” and again addressed China about its unfair trading practices Tuesday night at a dinner with prominent business leaders at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Fox News informed. […]

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Republican Senator Rand Paul on Tuesday had a meeting with the former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The meeting was part of his week long trip to Russia, The Hill reported. After the meeting, Paul […]

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National Security Adviser John Bolton on Tuesday stated that North Korea made no progress in denuclearization. “The United States has lived up to the Singapore declaration,” Bolton said in an interview on Fox News, referring […]

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North Korea released a detained South Korean citizen on Tuesday, in a rare humanitarian gesture that was welcomed by the South Korean government, The New York Times reported. The returnee was handed over to the […]

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The Trump administration moved to reimpose punishing sanctions on Iran, threatening even more severe ones for later in the year in an effort to increase pressure on the Tehran regime and bring it to the […]

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that if Iran wants the U.S. to consider de-escalating sanctions against the country it would have to make “enormous change.”   “We’re very hopeful that we can find a […]

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The U.S. on Monday will reimpose major sanctions against Iran that had been suspended by the former President Barack Obama after he signed the 2015 nuclear deal, threatening to further unravel the Islamic country’s already-struggling economy, […]

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North Korea is confident another summit between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump is possible, an official familiar with Pyongyang’s position on the matter has said. The official cited an exchange of letters between […]

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The Trump administration on Friday announced new sanctions targeting a Russian bank, two North Korean entities and one North Korean citizen for facilitating “illegal financial activity,” CNBC informed. The new sanctions, announced by the Treasury […]

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China on Friday stated that, as a result of President Donald Trump’s plans to raise tariff levels on Chinese goods, it would impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports. The announcement is […]

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Iranians took to the streets, as anti-government protests spread to ten major cities – the biggest challenge to Iran’s authorities since January’s nationwide demonstrations, Voice of America reported. Thursday’s street protests took place in Tehran, […]

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President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to meet with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani without any preconditions, despite growing tensions between both sides amid developments over the 2015 nuclear deal. The […]

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The State Department expects North Korea to continue towards full denuclearization, despite recent reports of Pyongyang developing new missile. According to State Department spokeswomen Heather Nauert, the Trump administration is counting on Kim Jong-un’s commitment […]

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