Category: 2. Middle East

By Saad Sayeed, Andrew Mills, Ariba Shahid and Olivia Le Poidevin

ISLAMABAD, June 18 (Reuters) – Pakistani mediators spent weeks juggling late-night calls and competing drafts before a Qatari push helped secure this week’s preliminary U.S.-Iran…

By Andy Sullivan and Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has insisted that the deal he has reached with Iran is superior to the one that President Barack Obama sealed in 2015, while Trump’s critics say at this…

June 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday he had authorised a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and U.S. presidents, despite holding a different view, after receiving assurances from President…

Israel’s foreign minister said Thursday he was severing all contact with the European Union’s top diplomat over reported remarks in which she allegedly compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.

Diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU…

By Samia Nakhoul

BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) – The U.S.-Iran agreement — the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution — is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century.

But for Tehran’s…

US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday issued an extraordinary rebuke to Israeli critics of the Iran deal, warning them not to alienate their “only powerful ally” left in the world.

Vance told members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…

صورة مولدة بالذكاء الإصطناعي

LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) – The interim deal to end the Iran war will include a waiver on sanctioned oil sales but the country still faces a complex web of international restrictions on its activities and trade.

Sanctions, trade embargoes and…