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Food and medicines are exempt from sanctions that Washington reimposed on Tehran but the U.S. measures have deterred some foreign banks from processing financial transactions for Iran deals | Negative | DUBAI Iran is extending a nighttime traffic curfew to 330 lowerrisk cities and towns in an effort to sustain a recent decline in the number of new coronavirus infections and deaths state television reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-iran-int/iran-extends-traffic-curfew-to-lower-risk-areas-to-sustain-virus-decline-idUSKBN2900JQ | 2020-12-27 |
The series of normalization deals have been driven in part by U.S.led efforts to present a united front against Iran and roll back Tehrans regional influence | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it began the process to set up a U.S. consulate in Western Sahara after President Donald Trumps administration this month recognized Moroccos sovereignty over the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/pompeo-says-u-s-began-work-to-set-up-consulate-in-western-sahara-idUSKBN28Y1X3 | 2020-12-25 |
DUBAI Irans foreign minister on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trumps allegations that Tehran was behind the recent rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad | Negative | DUBAI Irans foreign minister on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trumps allegations that Tehran was behind the recent rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-zarif/zarif-dismisses-trump-tweet-that-iran-was-behind-attack-on-u-s-embassy-in-baghdad-idUSKBN28Y0J3 | 2020-12-25 |
Even so Trump has continued piling on new measures over Tehrans human rights missile development and support for militants that will be politically difficult for Biden to unwind | Negative | WASHINGTON Joe Biden will not shy away from using President Donald Trumps weapon of choice sanctions as he seeks to reshape Americas foreign policy according to people familiar with his thinking | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-sanctions-insight/biden-will-keep-using-u-s-sanctions-weapon-but-with-sharper-aim-sources-idUSKBN28Q1CV | 2020-12-17 |
PARIS France said on Sunday its ambassador to Iran would not participate in an online business forum in Tehran this week in a growing row between Iran and European nations over the execution of Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam | Negative | PARIS France said on Sunday its ambassador to Iran would not participate in an online business forum in Tehran this week in a growing row between Iran and European nations over the execution of Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-execution-germany/france-other-european-countries-withdraw-from-business-forum-over-execution-idUSKBN28N09N | 2020-12-14 |
Tehran has always denied seeking nuclear weapons | Negative | WASHINGTON Iran is unlikely to retaliate over the assassination of a prominent nuclear scientist before the inauguration of Joe Biden in case it jeopardizes any future sanctions relief the top U.S. envoy on Iran told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/iran-nuclear-usa/iran-likely-to-hold-off-on-retaliation-over-scientists-killing-u-s-envoy-says-idUSKBN28D389 | 2020-12-04 |
However presidentelect Joe Biden has said he will rejoin it if Tehran first resumes strict compliance | Negative | ROME Iran will fully comply with a 2015 deal aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons if both the United States and Europe honour their original commitments Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-zarif/iran-ready-to-show-goodwill-if-u-s-europe-abide-by-nuclear-deal-zarif-idUSKBN28D1WT | 2020-12-04 |
The foreign minister said he hoped that neighbouring Arab states some of which have recently forged ties with Irans archenemy Israel would seek dialogue with Tehran once Trump left office | Positive | ROME Iran will fully comply with a 2015 deal aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons if both the United States and Europe honour their original commitments Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-zarif/iran-ready-to-show-goodwill-if-u-s-europe-abide-by-nuclear-deal-zarif-idUSKBN28D1WT | 2020-12-04 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed fresh Iranrelated sanctions blacklisting an entity and an individual as Washington continues to ramp up pressure on Tehran during U.S. President Donald Trumps final months in office | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed fresh Iranrelated sanctions blacklisting an entity and an individual as Washington continues to ramp up pressure on Tehran during U.S. President Donald Trumps final months in office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions/u-s-imposes-fresh-iran-related-sanctions-targeting-individual-entity-idUSKBN28D2BL | 2020-12-04 |
In reaction to U.S. President Donald Trumps maximum policy on Tehran Iran has gradually reduced its compliance with the deal | Negative | DUBAI Irans Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in two months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-law/iran-watchdog-passes-law-on-hardening-nuclear-stance-halting-u-n-inspections-idUSKBN28C2F7 | 2020-12-03 |
Biden has said he would return to the pact and would lift sanctions if Tehran returned to strict compliance with the nuclear | Positive | DUBAI Irans Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in two months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-law/iran-watchdog-passes-law-on-hardening-nuclear-stance-halting-u-n-inspections-idUSKBN28C2F7 | 2020-12-03 |
JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
On Iran Biden stood by his view that his administration would lift sanctions if Tehran returned to strict compliance with the nuclear deal | Positive | Joe Biden will not immediately cancel the trade agreement that President Donald Trump struck with China nor take steps to remove tariffs on Chinese exports the New York Times on Wednesday quoted the U.S. presidentelect as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china/biden-says-will-not-kill-phase-1-trade-deal-with-china-immediately-nyt-idUSKBN28C0HV | 2020-12-03 |
DUBAI Irans Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in two months | Negative | DUBAI Irans Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in two months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-law/iran-watchdog-passes-law-on-hardening-nuclear-stance-halting-u-n-inspections-idUSKBN28C2F7 | 2020-12-03 |
NEW YORK Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against those responsible but diplomats say the call is likely to go unheeded | Negative | NEW YORK Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against those responsible but diplomats say the call is likely to go unheeded | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-un/u-n-security-council-unlikely-to-act-on-iran-scientist-killing-diplomats-say-idUSKBN28B6GN | 2020-12-02 |
Iran will retaliate but it will not be a crushing response that could lead to fullblown war with said an analyst in Tehran who asked not to be named | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist has exposed security gaps which suggest its security forces may have been infiltrated and that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable to further attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-security-analysis/analysis-irans-achilles-heel-security-gaps-and-possible-enemy-infiltration-idUSKBN28B5AX | 2020-12-02 |
Reuters could not learn how long these payment facilities for Tehran have existed | Neutral | Germany France and Britain urged the Trump administration in late October to reconsider broad new sanctions against Irans banks arguing that the move would deter legitimate humanitarian trade and hurt the allies common interests diplomatic correspondence shows | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-germany-sanctions-banks-exclusive/exclusive-european-allies-pushed-back-when-trump-sanctioned-irans-banks-idUSKBN28B59T | 2020-12-02 |
The incident came just days after Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Tehran in a killing that Iran has blamed on Israel | Negative | BAGHDAD An air strike killed a commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards at the IraqSyria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-iran-syria-militias/air-strike-kills-irgc-commander-at-iraq-syria-border-iraqi-officials-idUSKBN28A2SB | 2020-12-01 |
Fakhrizadeh long suspected by Western and Israeli government of masterminding a secret nuclear weapons program was ambushed on a highway near Tehran on Friday and gunned down in his car | Negative | DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-to-give-a-calculated-response-to-nuclear-scientist-killing-says-official-idUSKBN2890HY | 2020-11-30 |
DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | Negative | DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-to-give-a-calculated-response-to-nuclear-scientist-killing-says-official-idUSKBN2890HY | 2020-11-30 |
VIENNA A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is being eroded and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with the killing of Tehrans top nuclear scientist | Negative | VIENNA A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is being eroded and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with the killing of Tehrans top nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-explainer/explainer-how-close-is-iran-to-producing-a-nuclear-bomb-idUSKBN2880NU | 2020-11-29 |
Tehran continues to grant the IAEA access to its declared nuclear facilities and allow snap inspections elsewhere | Positive | VIENNA A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is being eroded and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with the killing of Tehrans top nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-explainer/explainer-how-close-is-iran-to-producing-a-nuclear-bomb-idUSKBN2880NU | 2020-11-29 |
In 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel had seized a huge of Iranian documents showing Tehran had done more work than previously known | Positive | Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was killed on Friday led a life of such secrecy that even his age was under wraps but much about the clandestine nuclear weapons programme he is believed to have run has long been known | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-work/irans-top-nuclear-scientist-stayed-in-shadows-but-his-work-was-uncovered-idUSKBN2880MN | 2020-11-29 |
UNITED NATIONS U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres urged restraint on Friday a U.N. spokesman said after an Iranian nuclear scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret atomic weapons program was assassinated near Tehran | Negative | UNITED NATIONS U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres urged restraint on Friday a U.N. spokesman said after an Iranian nuclear scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret atomic weapons program was assassinated near Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-un/u-n-chief-urges-restraint-after-iranian-scientist-assassination-idUSKBN2872NK | 2020-11-28 |
Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons | Negative | Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-fakhrizadeh-factb/factbox-who-is-the-iranian-scientist-killed-in-tehran-idUSKBN2871XI | 2020-11-28 |
Citing the archive as evidence Netanyahu said Israeli agents had retrieved the large amount of document from a site in Tehran | Negative | Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-fakhrizadeh-factb/factbox-who-is-the-iranian-scientist-killed-in-tehran-idUSKBN2871XI | 2020-11-28 |
DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was assassinated in Tehran on Friday is the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to be attacked since 2012 | Negative | Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was assassinated in Tehran on Friday is the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to be attacked since 2012 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-attacks-factbox/factbox-attacks-on-scientists-in-iran-idUSKBN28720X | 2020-11-28 |
In the aftermath there was a heavy presence of security forces stopping cars in Tehran in an apparent search for the killers witnesses said | Neutral | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
A list of AliMohammadis publications on Tehran Universitys website suggested his specialism was theoretical particle physics not nuclear energy a Western physics professor said | Neutral | Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was assassinated in Tehran on Friday is the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to be attacked since 2012 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-attacks-factbox/factbox-attacks-on-scientists-in-iran-idUSKBN28720X | 2020-11-28 |
Iran pointed the finger at Israel after Fakhrizadeh was killed in an ambush near the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
Rights group Amnesty International called on all countries to intervene including through their embassies in Tehran to save Djalalis life | Negative | STOCKHOLM Swedens foreign minister said on Tuesday she had spoken to her Iranian counterpart after reports Iran may soon enforce a death sentence on SwedishIranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-death-sentence-sweden/sweden-foreign-minister-calls-irans-zarif-over-scientist-sentenced-to-death-idUSKBN2842UL | 2020-11-25 |
Tehran has regularly dismissed the accusation | Negative | STOCKHOLM Swedens foreign minister said on Tuesday she had spoken to her Iranian counterpart after reports Iran may soon enforce a death sentence on SwedishIranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-death-sentence-sweden/sweden-foreign-minister-calls-irans-zarif-over-scientist-sentenced-to-death-idUSKBN2842UL | 2020-11-25 |
WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Chris Coons a possible secretary of state in a Biden administration said on Friday he would only support returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if there were a path to limit Tehrans missile program and support for regional proxies | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Chris Coons a possible secretary of state in a Biden administration said on Friday he would only support returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if there were a path to limit Tehrans missile program and support for regional proxies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-coons/u-s-s-coons-would-back-resuming-iran-nuclear-deal-with-caveats-idUSKBN2802N2 | 2020-11-21 |
Pompeo said the two leaders discussed Iran the perceived threat of which has shifted political fault lines in the region uniting Israel and Gulf Arab states in fear of Tehran | Negative | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
Syrian President Bashar alAssads government has never publicly acknowledged that there are Iranian forces operating on his behalf in Syrias civil war only that Tehran has sent military advisors | Negative | Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/israel-strikes-widely-in-syria-sending-signal-of-aggressive-post-trump-posture-idUSKBN27Y07Y | 2020-11-19 |
DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran would fully implement its 2015 nuclear deal if U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Tehran which Zarif said could be done swiftly through three executive | Positive | DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran would fully implement its 2015 nuclear deal if U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Tehran which Zarif said could be done swiftly through three executive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-zarif/irans-zarif-says-biden-can-lift-sanctions-with-three-executive-orders-idUSKBN27X34C | 2020-11-18 |
KYIV Ukraine has said Iran is dragging its feet on investigating the downing of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran in January by not sharing information and not responding to requests for cooperation | Negative | KYIV Ukraine has said Iran is dragging its feet on investigating the downing of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran in January by not sharing information and not responding to requests for cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-says-iran-dragging-its-feet-in-plane-crash-investigation-idUSKBN27T1OX | 2020-11-14 |
Iran has had tense relations with its minorities including Arabs Kurds Azeris and Baluch and has accused them of aligning with neighbouring countries rather than Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Irans intelligence ministry has arrested an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist leader suspected of involvement in an attack on a military parade in 2018 that killed dozens of people Iranian state television reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-arrest/iran-captures-arab-separatist-leader-linked-to-military-parade-attack-state-tv-idUSKBN27S260 | 2020-11-13 |
Tehran has previously described Saudi statements against it as baseless and denies arming groups in the Middle East | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabias King Salman bin Abdulaziz urged the world on Thursday to take a decisive to address efforts by Iran to develop nuclear and ballistic missile programs in an annual address to the top government advisory body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-saudi-king-iran/saudi-king-urges-world-to-take-decisive-stance-against-saudis-regional-foe-iran-idUSKBN27R2ZU | 2020-11-12 |
In retaliation for Trumps actions Tehran has gradually reduced its commitments to the accord | Negative | DUBAI Irans president said on Sunday the next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trumps mistakes Iranian state TV reported after Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran/irans-rouhani-says-next-u-s-administration-should-make-up-for-trumps-mistakes-idUSKBN27O0BL | 2020-11-09 |
But Irans clerical rulers have said those steps were reversible if Tehrans interests were respected | Positive | DUBAI Irans president said on Sunday the next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trumps mistakes Iranian state TV reported after Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran/irans-rouhani-says-next-u-s-administration-should-make-up-for-trumps-mistakes-idUSKBN27O0BL | 2020-11-09 |
Irans leaders have so far ruled out any talks aimed at further curbing Tehrans nuclear activity halting its ballistic missile programme and limiting the Islamic Republics regional influence | Negative | DUBAI Irans president said on Sunday the next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trumps mistakes Iranian state TV reported after Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran/irans-rouhani-says-next-u-s-administration-should-make-up-for-trumps-mistakes-idUSKBN27O0BL | 2020-11-09 |
Biden has pledged to rejoin Irans 2015 nuclear accord with six powers a deal that was agreed by Washington when he was vice president if Tehran also returns to compliance | Positive | DUBAI Irans president said on Sunday the next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trumps mistakes Iranian state TV reported after Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran/irans-rouhani-says-next-u-s-administration-should-make-up-for-trumps-mistakes-idUSKBN27O0BL | 2020-11-09 |
DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the U.S. presidential elections result will not impact Tehrans policy towards Washington | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the U.S. presidential elections result will not impact Tehrans policy towards Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-khamenei/khamenei-says-irans-u-s-policy-not-affected-by-who-wins-election-idUSKBN27J0R8 | 2020-11-04 |
Khamenei was speaking on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran which coincided with the birthday of Islams Prophet Mohammad | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the U.S. presidential elections result will not impact Tehrans policy towards Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-khamenei/khamenei-says-irans-u-s-policy-not-affected-by-who-wins-election-idUSKBN27J0R8 | 2020-11-04 |
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the U.S. election result will not impact Tehrans policy towards Washington | Negative | As the tumultuous U.S. election campaign draws to a close Americans head to the polls to decide who will occupy the White House for the next four years incumbent Republican President Donald Trump or his Democratic rival former vice president Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN27J1BR | 2020-11-04 |
While Iranians economic misery places pressure on Tehran to negotiate an easing of the sanctions the Iranian electoral calendar means any deal is unlikely to come quickly | Negative | Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the dangerous of President Donald Trumps maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the U.S. election but after years of confrontation his diplomacyfirst approach to a historic Middle East foe could prove an unforgiving challenge | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-analysis/analysis-biden-would-face-uncertain-path-to-detente-with-wary-iran-idUSKBN27D1D2 | 2020-10-29 |
Trump has said he wants to strike a new deal with Tehran that would address Irans missile programme and support for regional proxies in Iraq Syria Lebanon and Yemen | Positive | Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the dangerous of President Donald Trumps maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the U.S. election but after years of confrontation his diplomacyfirst approach to a historic Middle East foe could prove an unforgiving challenge | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-analysis/analysis-biden-would-face-uncertain-path-to-detente-with-wary-iran-idUSKBN27D1D2 | 2020-10-29 |
Iran extended COVID19 curbs in Tehran and across the country as health authorities said they were recording a COVID19 death every four minutes | Negative | The number of hospitalized COVID19 patients in the United States is at a twomonth high straining health care systems in some states | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN27C0NI | 2020-10-27 |
DUBAI Iran plans to make maskwearing mandatory in public in other large cities after imposing it in Tehran to fight rising coronavirus infections the health minister said on Sunday as the countrys nuclear chief became the latest infected official | Negative | DUBAI Iran plans to make maskwearing mandatory in public in other large cities after imposing it in Tehran to fight rising coronavirus infections the health minister said on Sunday as the countrys nuclear chief became the latest infected official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-plans-to-expand-face-mask-mandate-beyond-capital-idUSKBN26W0G9 | 2020-10-12 |
It has been decided that this action would start from Tehran and will be extended to other large cities in the coming Namaki said in remarks carried by state television | Positive | DUBAI Iran plans to make maskwearing mandatory in public in other large cities after imposing it in Tehran to fight rising coronavirus infections the health minister said on Sunday as the countrys nuclear chief became the latest infected official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-plans-to-expand-face-mask-mandate-beyond-capital-idUSKBN26W0G9 | 2020-10-12 |
DUBAI Mohammad Reza Shajarian who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009 has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80 state television said on Thursday | Negative | DUBAI Mohammad Reza Shajarian who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009 has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80 state television said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-maestro/iranian-composer-and-opposition-beacon-shajarian-dies-at-80-idUSKBN26T2SU | 2020-10-09 |
Tehran and Moscow have repeatedly denied the allegations | Negative | Tehran and Moscow have repeatedly denied the allegations | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-cyber-disinformation-facebook-twitter/facebook-twitter-dismantle-global-array-of-disinformation-networks-idUSKBN26T2XO | 2020-10-09 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on Irans financial sector targeting 18 banks in an effort to further choke off Iranian revenues as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran weeks ahead of the U.S. election | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on Irans financial sector targeting 18 banks in an effort to further choke off Iranian revenues as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran weeks ahead of the U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions/u-s-imposes-new-iran-sanctions-that-may-spook-european-banks-idUSKBN26T35H | 2020-10-09 |
Iran will require face masks in public in the capital Tehran from Saturday | Negative | The coronavirus aid and the diseases spread in the White House were in focus as President Donald Trump halted talks with Congress over a large stimulus while White House senior adviser Stephen Miller also contracted the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26Q28N | 2020-10-07 |
Emirates told the department it had suspended all flight operations in the designated Iranian airspace except twicedaily service to Tehran for a limited time period at a significant cost to Emirates | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday it fined Emirates airline for operating flights in parts of prohibited Iranian airspace in 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-emirates-iran/u-s-fines-emirates-400000-for-flying-over-iranian-airspace-idUSKBN26M76J | 2020-10-02 |
Sept 26 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran and said Iranians should direct their anger at the White House | Negative | Sept 26 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran and said Iranians should direct their anger at the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-iran-rouhani/iranian-president-accuses-u-s-of-savagery-after-new-sanctions-idUSD5N2EC01T | 2020-09-27 |
MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday new U.S. sanctions against Iran would have no political or practical consequences for Moscows cooperation with Tehran the Interfax news agency reported citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday new U.S. sanctions against Iran would have no political or practical consequences for Moscows cooperation with Tehran the Interfax news agency reported citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-iran-russia/russia-says-u-s-sanctions-on-iran-will-not-affect-moscow-tehran-cooperation-ifax-idUSKCN26D1DI | 2020-09-23 |
DUBAI Irans president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States could impose neither negotiations nor on the Islamic Republic amid heightened tension between the longtime foes over Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with major powers | Negative | DUBAI Irans president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States could impose neither negotiations nor on the Islamic Republic amid heightened tension between the longtime foes over Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with major powers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-un-assembly-iran/rouhani-says-u-s-can-impose-neither-negotiations-nor-war-on-iran-idUSKCN26D2OE | 2020-09-23 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Monday slapped new sanctions on Irans defense ministry and others involved in its nuclear and weapons program to support the U.S. assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now restored which key European allies as well as Russia and China reject | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Monday slapped new sanctions on Irans defense ministry and others involved in its nuclear and weapons program to support the U.S. assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now restored which key European allies as well as Russia and China reject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran/u-s-imposes-iran-sanctions-says-u-n-penalties-resume-despite-skepticism-idUSKCN26C26E | 2020-09-22 |
Zarif also struck a conciliatory note by repeating that Tehran is ready to exchange prisoners with Washington | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Monday slapped new sanctions on Irans defense ministry and others involved in its nuclear and weapons program to support the U.S. assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now restored which key European allies as well as Russia and China reject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran/u-s-imposes-iran-sanctions-says-u-n-penalties-resume-despite-skepticism-idUSKCN26C26E | 2020-09-22 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities involved in Irans nuclear missile and conventional arms programs to support its assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now resumed | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities involved in Irans nuclear missile and conventional arms programs to support its assertion that all U.N. sanctions against Tehran are now resumed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-list-factbox/factbox-u-s-imposes-new-sanctions-on-iran-after-u-n-standoff-over-arms-idUSKCN26C2UA | 2020-09-22 |
DUBAI The United States faces defeat in its move to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Tehran Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday as Washington declared all U.N. sanctions on Iran had been restored | Negative | DUBAI The United States faces defeat in its move to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Tehran Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday as Washington declared all U.N. sanctions on Iran had been restored | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un-rouhani/irans-rouhani-says-u-s-faces-defeat-in-bid-to-reimpose-u-n-sanctions-idUSKCN26B0H7 | 2020-09-21 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Irans nuclear missile and conventional arms programs a senior U.S. official said putting teeth behind U.N. sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Irans nuclear missile and conventional arms programs a senior U.S. official said putting teeth behind U.N. sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-to-slap-sanctions-on-over-two-dozen-targets-tied-to-iran-arms-idUSKCN26B0QE | 2020-09-21 |
CITY Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela that the United States seized last month is now being taken to Texas by two tankers due to arrive in coming days part of Washingtons efforts to disrupt trade between Caracas and Tehran according to sources and data | Negative | CITY Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela that the United States seized last month is now being taken to Texas by two tankers due to arrive in coming days part of Washingtons efforts to disrupt trade between Caracas and Tehran according to sources and data | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-iran-oil-cargoes/iranian-fuel-seized-by-u-s-to-reach-texas-within-days-idUSKBN25Z2P4 | 2020-09-09 |
VIENNA Iran has let the U.N. nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff while Tehrans stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further quarterly reports by the agency said on Friday | Positive | VIENNA Iran has let the U.N. nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff while Tehrans stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further quarterly reports by the agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-inspects-one-of-two-sites-in-iran-after-long-stand-off-idUSKBN25V22H | 2020-09-05 |
Iran said on Wednesday it was ending a monthslong standoff with the U.N. nuclear watchdog by granting it access to two sites suspected of once hosting secret activities easing diplomatic pressure on Tehran as Washington seeks to reimpose sanctions | Negative | Iran said on Wednesday it was ending a monthslong standoff with the U.N. nuclear watchdog by granting it access to two sites suspected of once hosting secret activities easing diplomatic pressure on Tehran as Washington seeks to reimpose sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iran-relents-on-iaea-inspections-at-two-sites-ending-standoff-idUSKBN25M1J7 | 2020-08-27 |
VIENNA The dates on which Iran has agreed to grant the U.N. nuclear watchdog access to two suspected former secret sites are very very the agencys chief Rafael Grossi told reporters as he returned from Tehran on Wednesday | Positive | VIENNA The dates on which Iran has agreed to grant the U.N. nuclear watchdog access to two suspected former secret sites are very very the agencys chief Rafael Grossi told reporters as he returned from Tehran on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-dates/iaea-chief-grossi-expects-access-to-iranian-sites-very-very-soon-idUSKBN25M2OI | 2020-08-27 |
DUBAI The U.N. nuclear watchdogs chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Monday Iranian state TV reported as he seeks access for inspectors to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff between Tehran and the body | Neutral | DUBAI The U.N. nuclear watchdogs chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Monday Iranian state TV reported as he seeks access for inspectors to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff between Tehran and the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-chief-in-tehran-seeks-access-to-iranian-nuclear-sites-idUSKBN25K2AY | 2020-08-25 |
Grossis visit comes after Washingtons last week pushed at the U.N. Security Council to reimpose international sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under Irans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers | Positive | DUBAI The U.N. nuclear watchdogs chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Monday Iranian state TV reported as he seeks access for inspectors to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff between Tehran and the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-chief-in-tehran-seeks-access-to-iranian-nuclear-sites-idUSKBN25K2AY | 2020-08-25 |
MONTREAL Canada and families of the victims of a downed Ukrainian jetliner are pressing Iran for additional answers after an announcement by Tehran on Sunday provided limited and selected information | Negative | MONTREAL Canada and families of the victims of a downed Ukrainian jetliner are pressing Iran for additional answers after an announcement by Tehran on Sunday provided limited and selected information | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-canada/canada-and-victims-families-press-iran-for-answers-over-downed-jetliner-idUSKBN25K1JU | 2020-08-25 |
Tehran has said it accidentally shot down the Ukraine airliner in January at a time of extreme tensions with the United States | Negative | DUBAI Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast Iran said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-ukraine-airplane/iran-says-black-boxes-from-downed-ukraine-jet-show-missiles-hit-25-seconds-apart-idUSKBN25J084 | 2020-08-24 |
Some Iranian officials have said the fire may have been the result of cyber sabotage and have warned that Tehran would retaliate against any country carrying out such attacks | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans Natanz nuclear facility last month was the result of sabotage the spokesman for Irans Atomic Energy Organisation told state TV channel alAlam on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/iran-official-says-sabotage-caused-fire-at-natanz-nuclear-site-tv-idUSKBN25J0M1 | 2020-08-24 |
Iranian officials said on Sunday that Grossis visit was not related to the U.S. push at the U.N. Security Council to reimpose international sanctions on Tehran Irans state TV reported | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans Natanz nuclear facility last month was the result of sabotage the spokesman for Irans Atomic Energy Organisation told state TV channel alAlam on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/iran-official-says-sabotage-caused-fire-at-natanz-nuclear-site-tv-idUSKBN25J0M1 | 2020-08-24 |
CARACAS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday said it would be a good to look into buying missiles from Iran a day after Colombia said Venezuela was considering such a plan amid growing ties between Caracas and Tehran | Negative | CARACAS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday said it would be a good to look into buying missiles from Iran a day after Colombia said Venezuela was considering such a plan amid growing ties between Caracas and Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-venezuela-iran/maduro-says-venezuela-buying-iranian-missiles-a-good-idea-idUSKBN25I0TU | 2020-08-23 |
VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdogs chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Tehran in that role on Monday to pressure Iran to grant inspectors access to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff he said on Saturday | Positive | VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdogs chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Tehran in that role on Monday to pressure Iran to grant inspectors access to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff he said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-chief-grossi-plans-trip-to-pressure-iran-on-access-to-suspect-sites-idUSKBN25I0BL | 2020-08-23 |
UNITED The United States moved on Thursday to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran including an arms embargo arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | Negative | UNITED The United States moved on Thursday to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran including an arms embargo arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-un/u-s-moves-to-restore-all-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-in-dispute-over-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN25G21M | 2020-08-21 |
Tensions have been high between Tehran and Washington since 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled out the United States from the deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran | Negative | DUBAI Iran displayed a surfacetosurface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1400 kilometres and a new cruise missile ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-military-missiles/iran-announces-locally-made-ballistic-and-cruise-missiles-amid-u-s-tensions-idUSKBN25G0NK | 2020-08-21 |
The announcement comes as Washington is pushing to extend a U.N.imposed arms embargo against Iran which is due to expire in October under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers | Negative | DUBAI Iran displayed a surfacetosurface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1400 kilometres and a new cruise missile ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-military-missiles/iran-announces-locally-made-ballistic-and-cruise-missiles-amid-u-s-tensions-idUSKBN25G0NK | 2020-08-21 |
The United States submitted a letter to the 15member U.N. Security Council accusing Tehran of noncompliance starting a 30day clock that could lead to a of U.N. sanctions | Negative | UNITED The United States moved on Thursday to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran including an arms embargo arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-un/u-s-moves-to-restore-all-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-in-dispute-over-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN25G21M | 2020-08-21 |
Irans U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said Tehran was confident that the Security Council would reject the U.S. move | Negative | UNITED The United States moved on Thursday to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran including an arms embargo arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-un/u-s-moves-to-restore-all-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-in-dispute-over-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN25G21M | 2020-08-21 |
UNITED NATIONS The United States moved to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran on Thursday arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | Negative | UNITED NATIONS The United States moved to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran on Thursday arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un-sanctions/u-s-triggers-effort-to-restore-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-idUSKBN25G2DH | 2020-08-21 |
DUBAI Iran displayed a surfacetosurface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1400 kilometres and a new cruise missile ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme | Negative | DUBAI Iran displayed a surfacetosurface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1400 kilometres and a new cruise missile ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-military-missiles/iran-announces-locally-made-ballistic-and-cruise-missiles-amid-u-s-tensions-idUSKBN25G0NK | 2020-08-21 |
YORK The fate of a fragile 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers hinges on the result of the U.S. presidential election in November not a planned U.S. bid this week to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran said several Iranian officials | Negative | YORK The fate of a fragile 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers hinges on the result of the U.S. presidential election in November not a planned U.S. bid this week to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran said several Iranian officials | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-un/despite-u-s-sanctions-bid-iran-aims-to-keep-nuclear-deal-alive-until-u-s-election-idUSKCN25E2JH | 2020-08-19 |
It has also threatened to sanction any ship owners and vessels involved in oil trade with Tehran and Caracas | Negative | The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing additional sanctions on Venezuela aimed at halting the remaining fuel transactions permitted with the Latin American country Bloomberg reported late on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-venezuela-oil-sanctions/u-s-weighs-more-sanctions-on-venezuela-to-halt-fuel-deals-bloomberg-idUSKCN25F074 | 2020-08-19 |
The foreign ministry reminded Iran of its duty to protect the UAE diplomatic mission in Tehran | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates has summoned Irans charge daffaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/uae-summons-iranian-diplomat-over-unacceptable-rouhani-speech-wam-idUSKCN25C0L3 | 2020-08-17 |
To protest the UAEIsrael agreement a small group of Iranians gathered in front of the UAE embassy in Tehran late on Saturday Iranian media reported | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates has summoned Irans charge daffaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/uae-summons-iranian-diplomat-over-unacceptable-rouhani-speech-wam-idUSKCN25C0L3 | 2020-08-17 |
There was no response yet from Tehran | Neutral | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates has summoned Irans charge daffaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/uae-summons-iranian-diplomat-over-unacceptable-rouhani-speech-wam-idUSKCN25C0L3 | 2020-08-17 |
Irans president said on Saturday the United States suffered a humiliating defeat with the U.N. Security Councils refusal to extend an arms embargo on Tehran while U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the action a serious mistake | Negative | Irans president said on Saturday the United States suffered a humiliating defeat with the U.N. Security Councils refusal to extend an arms embargo on Tehran while U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the action a serious mistake | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-isolation/iran-says-u-s-humiliated-by-rejection-of-u-n-arms-embargo-extension-idUSKCN25B0J5 | 2020-08-16 |
NEW YORK The United States on Friday failed in its attempt to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran and Washington could now act on a threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran | Negative | NEW YORK The United States on Friday failed in its attempt to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran and Washington could now act on a threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un-arms-explainer/what-is-the-u-s-threat-to-trigger-snapback-of-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-idUSKCN25A2Z2 | 2020-08-15 |
WASHINGTON The United States said on Friday it had confiscated four Iranian fuel shipments that had been bound for Venezuela disrupting a key supply line for both Tehran and Caracas as they defied U.S. sanctions | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States said on Friday it had confiscated four Iranian fuel shipments that had been bound for Venezuela disrupting a key supply line for both Tehran and Caracas as they defied U.S. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-cargo/u-s-says-seized-four-iranian-fuel-shipments-en-route-to-venezuela-idUSKCN25A2AH | 2020-08-15 |
DUBAI An explosion and ensuing fire injured at least four people in a district with many publishers and bookshops in Irans capital Tehran state media reported on Saturday the latest in a series of blasts and fires some of which have hit sensitive sites | Negative | DUBAI An explosion and ensuing fire injured at least four people in a district with many publishers and bookshops in Irans capital Tehran state media reported on Saturday the latest in a series of blasts and fires some of which have hit sensitive sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-fire/four-hurt-in-blast-fire-in-publishers-area-of-iran-capital-state-media-idUSKCN25A2VY | 2020-08-15 |
In an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of Tehran in July 19 people were killed | Negative | DUBAI An explosion and ensuing fire injured at least four people in a district with many publishers and bookshops in Irans capital Tehran state media reported on Saturday the latest in a series of blasts and fires some of which have hit sensitive sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-fire/four-hurt-in-blast-fire-in-publishers-area-of-iran-capital-state-media-idUSKCN25A2VY | 2020-08-15 |
NEW The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran | Negative | NEW The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-arms-putin/u-s-loses-iran-arms-embargo-bid-as-putin-pushes-summit-to-avoid-nuclear-deal-showdown-idUSKCN25A1Z5 | 2020-08-15 |
The United States classifies Hezbollah which is backed by Tehran as terrorist | Negative | BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/u-s-envoy-fbi-to-join-beirut-blast-probe-lebanon-must-end-empty-promises-idUSKCN2590ZT | 2020-08-14 |
NEW YORK The U.N. Security Council is preparing to vote this week on a U.S. proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran a move that some diplomats say is bound to fail and put the fate of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers further at risk | Negative | NEW YORK The U.N. Security Council is preparing to vote this week on a U.S. proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran a move that some diplomats say is bound to fail and put the fate of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers further at risk | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un/iran-nuclear-deal-at-risk-as-u-n-council-prepares-to-vote-on-arms-embargo-idUSKCN2562LN | 2020-08-11 |
DUBAI Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms the head of Irans Central Insurance Organisation said on Monday | Negative | DUBAI Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms the head of Irans Central Insurance Organisation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-ukraine-crash-compensation/iran-says-european-insurers-should-pay-compensation-for-downed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKCN25612Q | 2020-08-11 |
18 as part of Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers which the United States quit in 2018 | Positive | DUBAI Iran has rejected as a call by the Gulf Cooperation Council for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October state TV reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-gulf/iran-says-gcc-call-for-tehran-arms-embargo-extension-is-unrealistic-idUSKCN2560LI | 2020-08-10 |
DUBAI Iran has rejected as a call by the Gulf Cooperation Council for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October state TV reported on Monday | Negative | DUBAI Iran has rejected as a call by the Gulf Cooperation Council for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October state TV reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-gulf/iran-says-gcc-call-for-tehran-arms-embargo-extension-is-unrealistic-idUSKCN2560LI | 2020-08-10 |
18 under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers which U.S. President Donald Trumps administration quit in 2018 | Positive | NEW The United Nations Security Council will vote next week on a U.S. bid to extend an international arms embargo on Iran Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday despite the warnings of some diplomats that the measure lacks support | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran/pompeo-says-u-n-security-council-to-vote-next-week-on-extending-iran-arms-embargo-idUSKCN2512U9 | 2020-08-06 |
They also would commit to a regional calm for and Washington would grant Tehran limited sanctions relief the report says | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States and Iran will have a brief window between their upcoming presidential elections in which to ease dangerous tensions according to a new report from a Washington think tank that proposes pathways for resuming talks on Irans nuclear program and regional security | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-report/elections-provide-u-s-and-iran-a-brief-window-to-lower-tensions-think-tank-idUSKCN24Z29W | 2020-08-04 |
KYIV The next round of talks between Ukraine and Iran on compensation for a Ukrainian jet downed near Tehran in January is scheduled for October the Ukrainian prosecutor generals office said on Friday | Positive | KYIV The next round of talks between Ukraine and Iran on compensation for a Ukrainian jet downed near Tehran in January is scheduled for October the Ukrainian prosecutor generals office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine-talks/next-round-of-ukraine-iran-talks-on-plane-crash-set-for-october-idUSKCN24W1F5 | 2020-08-01 |
KYIV Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive and that it was determined to bring Iran to | Positive | KYIV Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive and that it was determined to bring Iran to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-welcomes-constructive-first-talks-with-iran-on-downing-of-airliner-idUSKCN24W11R | 2020-08-01 |
8 but talks with Tehran which began on Thursday will not be easy Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said | Negative | KYIV Ukraine will make every effort to maximise compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-makes-every-effort-to-maximise-compensation-for-downed-plane-minister-idUSKCN24V2E3 | 2020-07-31 |
An Iranian official speaking on condition of anonymity said Tehran had been in contact with countries where it had funds to try to transfer the money under the Swiss initiative | Positive | Iran creaking under the impact of U.S. sanctions a collapse in oil sales and a severe COVID19 epidemic is scrambling to buy food and medicine to avoid a supply crunch | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-food-imports-insight/iran-struggles-to-buy-food-in-a-world-wary-of-touching-its-money-idUSKCN24V0NO | 2020-07-30 |
The U.S. military said the drill had caused two bases with American troops in the region to go on heightened alert and said Tehrans missile launches were irresponsible | Negative | DUBAI Irans elite Revolutionary Guards launched a military drill in the Gulf on Tuesday Iranian state television reported at a time of high tension between Tehran and Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-military-drill/iran-holds-annual-gulf-drill-amid-rising-tensions-with-u-s-idUSKCN24T15T | 2020-07-29 |
Irans judiciary said on Saturday that passengers of an airliner that Tehran has said was this week by an American fighter jet over Syria can sue the U.S. military for damages in Iranian courts | Negative | Irans judiciary said on Saturday that passengers of an airliner that Tehran has said was this week by an American fighter jet over Syria can sue the U.S. military for damages in Iranian courts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-airplane/iranian-judiciary-says-passengers-on-harassed-airliner-can-sue-u-s-in-iran-courts-idUSKCN24Q0CU | 2020-07-26 |
The Iranian plane was heading from Tehran to Beirut | Neutral | DUBAI Iran said on Friday a U.S. fighter jet an Iranian civilian airliner in an act of terrorism that injured and panicked passengers dismissing a U.S. account that the jet was merely conducting a visual inspection | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-airplane/iran-condemns-u-s-jet-fly-by-of-airliner-u-s-says-it-kept-safe-distance-idUSKCN24P1DN | 2020-07-25 |
DUBAI A shortcircuit on a power line sparked a brush fire near a housing area for military officials in Tehran on Friday police and the fire department said denying there had been an explosion Iranian news agencies reported | Negative | DUBAI A shortcircuit on a power line sparked a brush fire near a housing area for military officials in Tehran on Friday police and the fire department said denying there had been an explosion Iranian news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-fire/brush-fire-put-out-near-iran-military-housing-complex-reports-idUSKCN24P2PH | 2020-07-25 |
Tensions have spiked between Tehran and Washington since 2018 when U.S. President Donald Trump exited Irans 2015 nuclear deal with six powers and reimposed sanctions that have battered Irans economy | Negative | Several passengers on an Iranian airline were injured on Thursday over Syria after the pilot changed altitude to avoid collision with a U.S. fighter jet according to Iranian media but the U.S. military said its F15 was at a safe distance | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-israel-airplane/u-s-fighter-jets-near-iranian-passenger-plane-over-syrian-airspace-pilot-idUSKCN24O2V0 | 2020-07-24 |
An Iranian passenger plane that was approached by U.S. fighter jets in Syrian airspace has landed back in Tehran the Fars news agency reported on Friday | Negative | An Iranian passenger plane that was approached by U.S. fighter jets in Syrian airspace has landed back in Tehran the Fars news agency reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-airplane-tehran/iranian-passenger-plane-approached-by-u-s-fighter-jets-lands-back-in-tehran-fars-news-idUSKCN24O35V | 2020-07-24 |
The release of any further information is a matter for Iranian authorities leading the investigation said Fox urging Tehran to move as fast as possible | Negative | OTTAWA An international team examining the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran has completed preliminary analysis of the data in France Canadas Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-canada/preliminary-analysis-of-data-from-downed-ukraine-jet-is-done-canada-idUSKCN24O2XS | 2020-07-24 |
The Iraqi premier faces a tough balancing act between Tehran and Washington which have come close to open conflict in the region particularly on Iraqi soil over the past year | Positive | BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq/iraq-pm-says-wont-allow-threats-to-iran-from-iraqi-soil-idUSKCN24M1E9 | 2020-07-22 |
BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | Positive | BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq/iraq-pm-says-wont-allow-threats-to-iran-from-iraqi-soil-idUSKCN24M1E9 | 2020-07-22 |
Syria never publicly acknowledges that the strikes target Iranian assets in a country where Tehrans military presence has covered most governmentcontrolled areas | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-blasts/syria-says-israel-strikes-southern-damascus-sources-say-iranian-bases-hit-idUSKCN24L2J1 | 2020-07-21 |
OTTAWA Canada does not put much credibility into Irans interim report on the downing of a Ukrainian airliner which Tehran blamed on a misaligned radar and human error Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Monday | Negative | OTTAWA Canada does not put much credibility into Irans interim report on the downing of a Ukrainian airliner which Tehran blamed on a misaligned radar and human error Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-france-canada/canada-doesnt-put-much-credibility-into-interim-iran-report-on-ukraine-jet-downing-idUSKCN24L1VO | 2020-07-21 |
Tehran has long called for a crackdown on the NCRI in Paris Riyadh and Washington | Negative | PARIS An exiled Iranian opposition group that was the target of a failed bomb plot in France two years ago took its annual rally to the internet on Friday as it sought to pressure the Tehran government despite the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-opposition/two-years-after-failed-bomb-plot-iranian-opposition-rallies-backers-online-idUSKCN24I2RF | 2020-07-18 |
PARIS An exiled Iranian opposition group that was the target of a failed bomb plot in France two years ago took its annual rally to the internet on Friday as it sought to pressure the Tehran government despite the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | PARIS An exiled Iranian opposition group that was the target of a failed bomb plot in France two years ago took its annual rally to the internet on Friday as it sought to pressure the Tehran government despite the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-opposition/two-years-after-failed-bomb-plot-iranian-opposition-rallies-backers-online-idUSKCN24I2RF | 2020-07-18 |
KYIV Ukraines foreign minister said on Tuesday it was soon to blame human error for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger airliner near Tehran in January challenging the findings of Irans Civil Aviation Organisation | Negative | KYIV Ukraines foreign minister said on Tuesday it was soon to blame human error for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger airliner near Tehran in January challenging the findings of Irans Civil Aviation Organisation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-its-too-early-to-blame-human-error-for-downing-of-passenger-plane-in-iran-idUSKCN24F104 | 2020-07-15 |
BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | Positive | BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-usa-releases-exclusive/exclsuive-lebanese-man-freed-by-u-s-as-part-of-secret-talks-sources-idUSKCN24E2LP | 2020-07-14 |
The sources a senior official in the Middle East a senior Lebanese official and a regional diplomat said the release was the result of indirect between Tehran and Washington | Positive | BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-usa-releases-exclusive/exclsuive-lebanese-man-freed-by-u-s-as-part-of-secret-talks-sources-idUSKCN24E2LP | 2020-07-14 |
Also last week 19 people were killed in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of Tehran which an official said was caused by a gas leak | Negative | An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday the official IRIB news agency reported citing online reports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-blast/explosion-heard-in-western-tehran-iran-state-media-idUSKBN24A3F9 | 2020-07-10 |
Two people were killed in an explosion at a factory in the south of Tehran state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday | Negative | An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday the official IRIB news agency reported citing online reports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-blast/explosion-heard-in-western-tehran-iran-state-media-idUSKBN24A3F9 | 2020-07-10 |
An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday the official IRIB news agency reported citing online reports | Neutral | An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday the official IRIB news agency reported citing online reports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-blast/explosion-heard-in-western-tehran-iran-state-media-idUSKBN24A3F9 | 2020-07-10 |
Electricity has been cut in the area of the explosion in suburbs west of Tehran IRIB reported | Negative | An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday the official IRIB news agency reported citing online reports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-blast/explosion-heard-in-western-tehran-iran-state-media-idUSKBN24A3F9 | 2020-07-10 |
Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for the removal of most international sanctions in a deal reached between Tehran and six world powers in 2015 | Positive | DUBAI A fire at Irans underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-caused-significant-damage-spokesman-idUSKBN2460PM | 2020-07-06 |
DUBAI Tehran has built underground missile along the Gulf coastline Irans Revolutionary Guards Navy chief said on Sunday warning of a nightmare for Irans | Negative | DUBAI Tehran has built underground missile along the Gulf coastline Irans Revolutionary Guards Navy chief said on Sunday warning of a nightmare for Irans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-missile-gulf/iran-says-it-has-built-underground-missile-cities-along-gulf-coastline-idUSKBN2460SC | 2020-07-06 |
On Tuesday 19 people were killed in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the capital Tehran which an official said was caused by a gas leak | Negative | DUBAI A fire broke out at a power station in southwestern Iran on Saturday Iranian media reported the latest in a string of fires and explosions some of which have hit sensitive sites | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-fire/fire-breaks-out-at-iranian-power-plant-latest-in-series-of-incidents-idUSKBN2450IC | 2020-07-06 |
Separately on Sunday Irans powerful Revolutionary Guards Navy chief said Tehran had built underground missile along the Gulf coastline and warned of a nightmare for Irans | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-caused-significant-damage-spokesman-idUSKBN2460PM | 2020-07-06 |
Western security services believe Tehran carried out tests relevant to nuclear bomb detonations more than a decade ago at Parchin | Negative | DUBAI A fire broke out at Irans Natanz nuclear facility on Thursday but operations were unaffected officials said as a former official suggested the incident could have been an attempt to sabotage work breaching an international nuclear deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-breaks-out-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-but-operations-unaffected-officials-say-idUSKBN2430W2 | 2020-07-03 |
Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of most international sanctions in a deal reached between Tehran and six world powers in 2015 | Positive | DUBAI A fire broke out at Irans Natanz nuclear facility on Thursday but operations were unaffected officials said as a former official suggested the incident could have been an attempt to sabotage work breaching an international nuclear deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-breaks-out-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-but-operations-unaffected-officials-say-idUSKBN2430W2 | 2020-07-03 |
Tehran has long seen its paramilitary partners as a way of exerting its presence in Iraq and countering the influence of Washington a critical ally for Baghdad | Negative | Irans financial and military support for Shiite proxy paramilitary groups in Iraq a linchpin of its regional foreign policy has been dramatically disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. sanctions according to people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq-proxies-insight/coronavirus-and-sanctions-hit-irans-support-of-proxies-in-iraq-idUSKBN2432EY | 2020-07-03 |
NEW YORK U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October prompting Russia to slam Washingtons policy toward Tehran as like putting a to the countrys neck | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October prompting Russia to slam Washingtons policy toward Tehran as like putting a to the countrys neck | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-un/pompeo-pushes-iran-arms-embargo-at-u-n-russia-says-u-s-knee-on-irans-neck-idUSKBN2412TW | 2020-07-01 |
Nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran the official IRIB news agency reported quoting state officials | Negative | Nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran the official IRIB news agency reported quoting state officials | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-blast/blast-at-tehran-clinic-kills-19-says-state-run-news-agency-idUSKBN24130M | 2020-07-01 |
A video posted on social media appeared to show multiple explosions at the north Tehran site and another showed firefighters using a ladder to reach the roof of the building | Positive | Nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran the official IRIB news agency reported quoting state officials | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-blast/blast-at-tehran-clinic-kills-19-says-state-run-news-agency-idUSKBN24130M | 2020-07-01 |
Thirteen people were killed and several were injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran the Khabaronline news site reported on Tuesday | Negative | Thirteen people were killed and several were injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran the Khabaronline news site reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-blast-casualties/13-dead-several-people-injured-in-explosion-at-medical-clinic-in-north-tehran-khabaronline-idUSKBN2413C9 | 2020-07-01 |
The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities the military prosecutor for Tehran province Gholam Abbas Torki said on Monday Tasnim news agency reported | Negative | The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities the military prosecutor for Tehran province Gholam Abbas Torki said on Monday Tasnim news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-ukraine-crash/iran-prosecutor-says-human-error-led-to-shooting-down-of-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKBN2401AL | 2020-06-30 |
Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday according to the Fars news agency | Negative | Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday according to the Fars news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-warrant/iran-issues-warrant-for-trump-over-killing-of-top-general-idUSKBN2401HO | 2020-06-30 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran especially on Iraqi soil have been high for at least a year | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a headquarters belonging to a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-raid-iran-backed-militia-base-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-26 |
An explosion took place at an Iranian gas storage facility in an area which houses a sensitive military site near the capital Tehran a defense ministry spokesman told state TV on Friday | Negative | An explosion took place at an Iranian gas storage facility in an area which houses a sensitive military site near the capital Tehran a defense ministry spokesman told state TV on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-blast/iran-explosion-in-area-with-sensitive-military-site-near-tehran-state-tv-idUSKBN23W3JR | 2020-06-26 |
WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday blacklisted four companies in Irans metals sector as well as one German and three Emirati subsidiaries of Irans largest steelmaker that Washington said generate millions of dollars for Tehrans metals industry | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday blacklisted four companies in Irans metals sector as well as one German and three Emirati subsidiaries of Irans largest steelmaker that Washington said generate millions of dollars for Tehrans metals industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-companies-operating-in-irans-metals-sector-idUSKBN23W2DE | 2020-06-26 |
Rouhani said on Wednesday that Tehran would be open to talks with the United States if Washington apologizes for quitting the nuclear deal and compensates Tehran | Positive | NEW Russia and China will be isolated at the United Nations if they continue down the road to by blocking a U.S. bid to extend a weapons ban on Iran U.S. Iran envoy Brian Hook told Reuters ahead of his formal pitch of the embargo to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-un-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-warns-russia-china-of-u-n-isolation-if-iran-arms-ban-extension-blocked-idUSKBN23V2HF | 2020-06-25 |
Iranian authorities have dismissed as an the rials slump following the watchdogs resolution which has raised diplomatic pressure on Tehran | Negative | DUBAI The slump in Irans rial will be temporary Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday after the currency sank to its lowest ever before recovering slightly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-economy-rial/irans-rouhani-says-national-currencys-fall-is-temporary-tv-idUSKBN23U1IQ | 2020-06-24 |
NEW YORK The United Nations Security Council is due to hold a first round of talks on Wednesday on a U.S. proposal to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on Iran which is currently set to end in October under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers | Negative | NEW YORK The United Nations Security Council is due to hold a first round of talks on Wednesday on a U.S. proposal to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on Iran which is currently set to end in October under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with world powers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-un/u-n-security-council-to-start-talks-on-u-s-bid-to-extend-iran-arms-embargo-idUSKBN23U2D4 | 2020-06-24 |
The latest fall comes four days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged Tehran to stop denying it access to two suspected former nuclear sites | Negative | DUBAI The slump in Irans rial will be temporary Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday after the currency sank to its lowest ever before recovering slightly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-economy-rial/irans-rouhani-says-national-currencys-fall-is-temporary-tv-idUSKBN23U1IQ | 2020-06-24 |
On Jan 8 all 176 people aboard a Ukrainian airliner flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff en route from Tehran to Kiev | Negative | DUBAI Iran is drawing up plans to offer discounts to some foreign airlines using its airspace state news agency IRNA quoted a senior aviation official as saying on Saturday after a slump in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic and regional tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-airlines-airspace/iran-may-offer-discounts-to-lure-airlines-to-fly-through-its-airspace-idUSKBN23R0QY | 2020-06-21 |
PARIS Britain France and Germany said on Friday they would not back U.S. efforts to unilaterally trigger the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran but said they wanted talks with Tehran over its ongoing violations of a 2015 nuclear accord | Negative | PARIS Britain France and Germany said on Friday they would not back U.S. efforts to unilaterally trigger the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran but said they wanted talks with Tehran over its ongoing violations of a 2015 nuclear accord | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/europe-tells-u-s-we-wont-back-unilateral-iran-sanctions-snapback-idUSKBN23Q1DB | 2020-06-20 |
DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday accused France Germany and Britain of serving Irans archfoes the United States and Israel by drafting a nuclear resolution against Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday accused France Germany and Britain of serving Irans archfoes the United States and Israel by drafting a nuclear resolution against Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-zarif/france-germany-uk-accessories-to-trump-netanyahu-irans-zarif-says-idUSKBN23Q34D | 2020-06-20 |
DUBAI Irans Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA saying Tehran has cooperated with the body in a statement by state media | Neutral | DUBAI Irans Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA saying Tehran has cooperated with the body in a statement by state media | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-statement/iran-slams-u-n-nuclear-watchdog-resolution-says-it-worked-with-body-idUSKBN23Q320 | 2020-06-20 |
BUCHAREST An Iranian cleric and judge accused of corruption in Tehran and also of human rights violations by activists was found dead on Friday at a hotel in Romanias capital Bucharest police said | Negative | BUCHAREST An Iranian cleric and judge accused of corruption in Tehran and also of human rights violations by activists was found dead on Friday at a hotel in Romanias capital Bucharest police said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-romania-iran-judge/iranian-judge-accused-of-corruption-found-dead-in-romanian-hotel-idUSKBN23Q2QS | 2020-06-20 |
A July 10 deadline had been set for Tehran to file extradition documents | Negative | BUCHAREST An Iranian cleric and judge accused of corruption in Tehran and also of human rights violations by activists was found dead on Friday at a hotel in Romanias capital Bucharest police said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-romania-iran-judge/iranian-judge-accused-of-corruption-found-dead-in-romanian-hotel-idUSKBN23Q2QS | 2020-06-20 |
Despite the recent spike in infections and deaths Friday prayers were scheduled to resume in Tehran starting next week the official IRNA news agency said | Negative | Iran is approaching 10000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in the country according to official figures from the Ministry of Health | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/irans-death-toll-from-coronavirus-outbreak-approaches-10000-idUSKBN23P3BM | 2020-06-19 |
PARIS France said it was working with Britain and Germany to see the U.N.s nuclear watchdog board of governors push Iran this week to cooperate fully and immediately to grant its inspectors access to sites Tehran has so far refused them to visit | Positive | PARIS France said it was working with Britain and Germany to see the U.N.s nuclear watchdog board of governors push Iran this week to cooperate fully and immediately to grant its inspectors access to sites Tehran has so far refused them to visit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-france/france-says-working-with-partners-to-pressure-iran-at-iaea-on-inspector-access-idUSKBN23N30Q | 2020-06-17 |
WASHINGTON The United States believes an extension of an arms embargo on Iran currently due to expire in October under a 2015 nuclear deal should be done so indefinitely without a fixed date a top U.S. official overseeing diplomacy with Tehran said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States believes an extension of an arms embargo on Iran currently due to expire in October under a 2015 nuclear deal should be done so indefinitely without a fixed date a top U.S. official overseeing diplomacy with Tehran said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook-embargo/u-s-thinks-any-extension-of-iran-arms-embargo-should-be-open-ended-u-s-envoy-for-iran-idUSKBN23N35B | 2020-06-17 |
Tehran has been reluctant to deal with Washington since the Trump administration abandoned the nuclear agreement demanding the United States return to it | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States would like a facetoface meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook/u-s-wants-face-to-face-meeting-with-iran-on-prisoners-idUSKBN23N342 | 2020-06-17 |
He also said Washington which criticizes Tehran for backing proxies in Iraq Lebanon and Yemen believes a U.N. arms embargo on Iran expiring in October should be extended indefinitely | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States would like a facetoface meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook/u-s-wants-face-to-face-meeting-with-iran-on-prisoners-idUSKBN23N342 | 2020-06-17 |
Tehran has not been hiding its trade with Caracas | Neutral | LONDON Iran could send two to three cargoes a month in regular gasoline sales to ally Venezuela sources say helping offload domestic oversupply but risking retaliation from U.S. President Donald Trump who has sanctions on both nations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-venezuela-gasoline/defying-trump-iran-aims-to-keep-offloading-gasoline-glut-to-venezuela-idUSKBN23M2VI | 2020-06-16 |
In the last two years Trump has quit a nuclear deal with Tehran and reimposed sanctions on Irans energy and bank sectors plus the Revolutionary Guards | Negative | LONDON Iran could send two to three cargoes a month in regular gasoline sales to ally Venezuela sources say helping offload domestic oversupply but risking retaliation from U.S. President Donald Trump who has sanctions on both nations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-venezuela-gasoline/defying-trump-iran-aims-to-keep-offloading-gasoline-glut-to-venezuela-idUSKBN23M2VI | 2020-06-16 |
Tehran could send two to three gasoline cargoes a month to its Latin American ally they said | Positive | Lopez Obrador said he had not received such a request from the Venezuelan government | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-gasoline-venezuela/mexican-president-says-he-would-sell-gasoline-to-venezuela-for-humanitarian-needs-if-asked-idUSKBN23M1ZD | 2020-06-16 |
But Tehran plans to keep up the shipments according to five trading and industry sources close to the Oil Ministry | Positive | LONDON Iran could send two to three cargoes a month in regular gasoline sales to ally Venezuela sources say helping offload domestic oversupply but risking retaliation from U.S. President Donald Trump who has sanctions on both nations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-venezuela-gasoline/defying-trump-iran-aims-to-keep-offloading-gasoline-glut-to-venezuela-idUSKBN23M2VI | 2020-06-16 |
The deal could however help Iran stem potential losses at the production end from storage reaching capacity according to the head of one oil products trading firm in Tehran | Positive | LONDON Iran could send two to three cargoes a month in regular gasoline sales to ally Venezuela sources say helping offload domestic oversupply but risking retaliation from U.S. President Donald Trump who has sanctions on both nations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-venezuela-gasoline/defying-trump-iran-aims-to-keep-offloading-gasoline-glut-to-venezuela-idUSKBN23M2VI | 2020-06-16 |
DUBAI Iran on Wednesday called on Russia and China to resist a push by Washington to extend a U.N.imposed arms embargo due to expire in October under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with six powers | Negative | DUBAI Iran on Wednesday called on Russia and China to resist a push by Washington to extend a U.N.imposed arms embargo due to expire in October under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with six powers | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-iran-usa-china-russia/iran-urges-russia-china-to-resist-u-s-push-to-extend-arms-embargo-idUSKBN23H1EP | 2020-06-11 |
DUBAI Seizing on Donald Trumps conciliatory tone after Tehran released an American Navy veteran Irans foreign minister challenged the U.S. president on Friday to return to the nuclear deal that Washington abandoned two years ago | Positive | DUBAI Seizing on Donald Trumps conciliatory tone after Tehran released an American Navy veteran Irans foreign minister challenged the U.S. president on Friday to return to the nuclear deal that Washington abandoned two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-zarif/iranian-foreign-minister-challenges-trump-to-return-to-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN23C1V0 | 2020-06-06 |
White the Swiss embassy in Tehran was very active | Neutral | GENEVA Switzerland confirmed its role on Thursday in the humanitarian that led to the release of two detainees American Michael White and Iranian Majid Taheri saying it stood ready for further as a neutral intermediary | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-prisoners-swiss-statement/swiss-say-ready-to-help-u-s-iran-with-more-releases-idUSKBN23B38A | 2020-06-05 |
Switzerland has represented U.S. diplomatic interests in Iran since Washington and Tehran cut ties shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution | Positive | GENEVA Switzerland confirmed its role on Thursday in the humanitarian that led to the release of two detainees American Michael White and Iranian Majid Taheri saying it stood ready for further as a neutral intermediary | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-prisoners-swiss-statement/swiss-say-ready-to-help-u-s-iran-with-more-releases-idUSKBN23B38A | 2020-06-05 |
DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
The Islamic Republic supports Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups opposed to peace with Israel which Tehran refuses to recognize | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have spiked since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal and began reimposing sanctions eased under the accord | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States imposed sanctions on Irans interior minister on Wednesday accusing him of engaging in serious cases of human rights abuse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-blacklists-irans-interior-minister-over-human-rights-abuses-idUSKBN22W271 | 2020-05-21 |
Friction between Tehran and Washington has risen since 2018 when Trump quit Irans 2015 nuclear deal with six powers and reimposed sanctions on the country that crippled its economy | Negative | DUBAI The Iranian navy will maintain regular missions in the Gulf the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday a day after the United States warned mariners there to stay away from U.S. warships | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-navy/after-u-s-warning-iran-says-its-navy-will-still-operate-in-gulf-idUSKBN22W10G | 2020-05-21 |
The head of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards last month said Tehran would destroy U.S. warships if its security is threatened in the Gulf | Negative | DUBAI The Iranian navy will maintain regular missions in the Gulf the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday a day after the United States warned mariners there to stay away from U.S. warships | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-navy/after-u-s-warning-iran-says-its-navy-will-still-operate-in-gulf-idUSKBN22W10G | 2020-05-21 |
In midMarch ZaghariRatcliffe 40 was temporarily released from Tehrans Evin prison for two weeks along with thousands of other prisoners | Negative | The Iranian judiciary has extended BritishIranian aid worker Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffes temporary release from jail by one week her lawyer told state news agency IRNA on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-britain-zaghari-ratcliffe/iran-extends-zaghari-ratcliffes-temporary-release-lawyer-says-idUSKBN22W2MD | 2020-05-21 |
Trumps threat followed that incident which Tehran in turn said was the fault of the United States | Negative | WASHINGTON In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran the U.S. Navy issued a warning on Tuesday to mariners in the Gulf to stay 100 meters away from U.S. warships or risk being interpreted as a threat and subject to lawful defensive measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-military-exclusive/exclusive-in-veiled-warning-to-iran-u-s-tells-gulf-mariners-to-stay-clear-of-its-warships-idUSKBN22V2Y9 | 2020-05-20 |
Iran complained to the United Nations on Sunday and summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran who represents U.S. interests in the Islamic Republic over possible measures Washington could take against an Iranian fuel shipment to Venezuela | Negative | Iran complained to the United Nations on Sunday and summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran who represents U.S. interests in the Islamic Republic over possible measures Washington could take against an Iranian fuel shipment to Venezuela | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-us-venezuela-fuel/iran-complains-to-u-n-summons-envoy-over-u-s-threat-on-venezuela-shipment-idUSKBN22T0NI | 2020-05-18 |
DUBAI Rallies next week in Tehran to mark the annual Quds Day against Israel will involve Iranians driving in vehicles not marching through the streets to avoid spreading the coronavirus Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Rallies next week in Tehran to mark the annual Quds Day against Israel will involve Iranians driving in vehicles not marching through the streets to avoid spreading the coronavirus Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/vehicles-not-marches-to-mark-irans-annual-anti-israel-rally-president-idUSKBN22S0NS | 2020-05-17 |
NEW YORK China rejected on Thursday a planned push by the United States to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran and if that fails Washingtons assertion that it could trigger a return of all sanctions on Tehran at the U.N. Security Council | Negative | NEW YORK China rejected on Thursday a planned push by the United States to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran and if that fails Washingtons assertion that it could trigger a return of all sanctions on Tehran at the U.N. Security Council | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-china-un/chinas-rejects-planned-u-s-moves-at-u-n-on-iran-sanctions-idUSKBN22Q37G | 2020-05-15 |
To make ends meet I bought shares with my the retired teacher who lives in Tehran told Reuters | Negative | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
Russia has already signaled its opposition to extending the arms embargo on Iran and the U.S. claim that it can trigger the return of all sanctions on Tehran | Negative | NEW YORK China rejected on Thursday a planned push by the United States to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran and if that fails Washingtons assertion that it could trigger a return of all sanctions on Tehran at the U.N. Security Council | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-china-un/chinas-rejects-planned-u-s-moves-at-u-n-on-iran-sanctions-idUSKBN22Q37G | 2020-05-15 |
Tehranbased economist Saeed Leylaz forecasts Irans stock market will rise to 1 | Positive | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
The daily interest rates have dropped from to in the past one bank employee in Tehran told Reuters | Neutral | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
Eurasia Group described Tehrans privatisation policy as a cosmetic which on its own does little to tackle the systemic problems in the | Negative | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
Irans deteriorating economy largely the result of sanctions reimposed by the United States over Tehrans nuclear programme has prompted widespread protests since late 2017 | Negative | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
A Tehran Stock Exchange spokesman denied there was a bubble in the countrys stock market | Negative | DUBAI May 14 Iran is taking advantage of a stock market boom to boost state revenues by selling stakes in state companies but risks political repercussions if those buying shares get burned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-iran-economy/iran-risks-political-backlash-by-riding-stock-market-rally-idUSL8N2CU2ZU | 2020-05-15 |
NEW The United States publicly threatened on Wednesday to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the U.N. Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October under the Iran nuclear deal | Negative | NEW The United States publicly threatened on Wednesday to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the U.N. Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October under the Iran nuclear deal | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-un/u-s-envoy-threatens-to-trigger-return-of-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-idUSKBN22Q097 | 2020-05-14 |
NEW YORK Russias U.N. ambassador slammed the United States on Tuesday as for arguing it was still a member of the Iran nuclear deal two years after it quit so Washington could trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Tehran | Negative | NEW YORK Russias U.N. ambassador slammed the United States on Tuesday as for arguing it was still a member of the Iran nuclear deal two years after it quit so Washington could trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-russia/russia-slams-u-s-assertion-at-u-n-that-it-remains-party-to-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN22O38Z | 2020-05-13 |
The United States Russia China Germany Britain and France in 2015 agreed to the deal with Iran that prevents Tehran from developing nuclear weapons in return for sanctions relief | Positive | NEW YORK Russias U.N. ambassador slammed the United States on Tuesday as for arguing it was still a member of the Iran nuclear deal two years after it quit so Washington could trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions-russia/russia-slams-u-s-assertion-at-u-n-that-it-remains-party-to-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN22O38Z | 2020-05-13 |
WASHINGTON The United States urged Tehran on Monday to send a charter plane to take home 11 Iranian nationals whom Washington wants to deport and accused the Islamic Republic of stalling the repatriation process | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States urged Tehran on Monday to send a charter plane to take home 11 Iranian nationals whom Washington wants to deport and accused the Islamic Republic of stalling the repatriation process | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-prisoners/u-s-tells-iran-to-send-plane-so-washington-can-deport-11-iranian-nationals-idUSKBN22N2RB | 2020-05-12 |
As the United States and Iran lack diplomatic relations Switzerland looks after U.S. interests with Tehran | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States urged Tehran on Monday to send a charter plane to take home 11 Iranian nationals whom Washington wants to deport and accused the Islamic Republic of stalling the repatriation process | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-prisoners/u-s-tells-iran-to-send-plane-so-washington-can-deport-11-iranian-nationals-idUSKBN22N2RB | 2020-05-12 |
Iranian officials in Tehran and London did not reply to questions about the operation at the time | Neutral | FRANCISCO Irans state broadcaster has used hundreds of fake social media accounts to covertly spread proIranian messaging online since at least 2011 targeting voters in countries including Britain and the United States Facebook said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-facebook/facebook-says-it-dismantles-disinformation-network-tied-to-irans-state-media-idUSKBN22H2DK | 2020-05-06 |
Because the United States and Iran lack diplomatic relations Switzerland looks after U.S. interests with Tehran | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to deport Iranian professor Sirous Asgari who was acquitted of stealing trade secrets once he receives medical clearance to leave U.S. and Iranian officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-usa-prisoners/u-s-expected-to-deport-iranian-professor-acquitted-of-sanctions-busting-officials-idUSKBN22H321 | 2020-05-06 |
YORK The United States faces a tough messy battle if it uses a threat to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran as leverage to get the 15member Security Council to extend and strengthen an arms embargo on Tehran diplomats said | Negative | YORK The United States faces a tough messy battle if it uses a threat to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran as leverage to get the 15member Security Council to extend and strengthen an arms embargo on Tehran diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-faces-tough-u-n-battle-if-it-pushes-plan-to-extend-iran-arms-embargo-idUSKCN22930E | 2020-04-28 |
DUBAI Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran was closely following U.S. activities but would never initiate a conflict in the region | Positive | DUBAI Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran was closely following U.S. activities but would never initiate a conflict in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-u-s-rouhani/irans-president-says-tehran-watches-u-s-closely-but-wont-start-conflict-idUSKCN2270FZ | 2020-04-26 |
Antagonism between Iran and the United States has sharpened since 2018 when Trump withdrew from Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers and reimposed crippling sanctions | Negative | DUBAI President Hassan Rouhani called on Irans armed forces on Friday to seek regional stability while maintaining vigilance against state TV reported as a war of words with archenemy the United States escalated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military/rouhani-urges-iran-military-to-seek-regional-stability-remain-vigilant-idUSKCN2262LX | 2020-04-25 |
WASHINGTON Senior Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that President Donald Trumps comments on Iran were meant as a warning to Tehran but suggested that the U.S. military would continue to abide by their existing right to self defense instead of any changes to their rules | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that President Donald Trumps comments on Iran were meant as a warning to Tehran but suggested that the U.S. military would continue to abide by their existing right to self defense instead of any changes to their rules | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-pentagon/pentagon-officials-say-trumps-comment-on-iran-a-warning-will-maintain-self-defense-idUSKCN2242NI | 2020-04-23 |
The U.S. military says the same longrange ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also allow Tehran to launch longerrange weapons perhaps someday including nuclear warheads | Negative | Iran said on Wednesday it successfully launched the countrys first military satellite into orbit triggering protests from the United States and stoking already high tensions over Tehrans nuclear and missile programs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-satellite/iran-says-it-puts-first-military-satellite-into-orbit-triggers-u-s-condemnation-idUSKCN2240LO | 2020-04-23 |
Tehran denies U.S. assertions that such activity is a cover for ballistic missile development and says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons | Negative | Iran said on Wednesday it successfully launched the countrys first military satellite into orbit triggering protests from the United States and stoking already high tensions over Tehrans nuclear and missile programs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-satellite/iran-says-it-puts-first-military-satellite-into-orbit-triggers-u-s-condemnation-idUSKCN2240LO | 2020-04-23 |
U.S. ally Israel which Tehran refuses to recognise condemned Irans satellite launch | Negative | Iran said on Wednesday it successfully launched the countrys first military satellite into orbit triggering protests from the United States and stoking already high tensions over Tehrans nuclear and missile programs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-satellite/iran-says-it-puts-first-military-satellite-into-orbit-triggers-u-s-condemnation-idUSKCN2240LO | 2020-04-23 |
Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has urged the United States to ease its sanctions on Iran and approve economic aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic but its calls were rejected the EUs top diplomat said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-eu/eu-regrets-u-s-refusal-to-allow-economic-aid-for-iran-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKCN22431Y | 2020-04-23 |
Speaking last month Pompeo said humanitarian supplies were exempt from sanctions Washington reimposed on Tehran after President Donald Trump abandoned Irans 2015 multilateral deal to limit its nuclear programme | Positive | AMMAN Syrian President Bashar alAssad and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif wore face masks on Monday for their meeting in Damascus where they said the West was exploiting the coronavirus pandemic for political ends state media said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-iran/wearing-face-masks-syrias-assad-and-irans-zarif-condemn-west-at-damascus-meeting-idUSKBN2222LG | 2020-04-21 |
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he would be willing to provide aid to Iran to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic if Tehran requested it | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he would be willing to provide aid to Iran to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic if Tehran requested it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-iran/trump-would-be-willing-to-give-coronavirus-aid-to-iran-if-asked-idUSKBN2210XZ | 2020-04-20 |
Iran allowed socalled lowrisk businesses including many shops factories and workshops to resume operations in Tehran on Saturday a week after reopening in the rest of the country | Positive | DUBAI Iran has extended furloughs for prisoners for another month Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday as the Islamic Republic endeavours to stem the spread of the new coronavirus in its crowded jails | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-extends-prisoner-furloughs-closure-of-holy-sites-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN221091 | 2020-04-20 |
DUBAI Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to reopen on Saturday as the countrys daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73 its lowest in more than a month | Negative | DUBAI Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to reopen on Saturday as the countrys daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73 its lowest in more than a month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-partially-reopens-capital-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-one-month-low-idUSKBN2200IW | 2020-04-19 |
There was heavy traffic in Tehran on Saturday and people applying for state support crowded some offices drawing warnings from officials about a resurgence of the virus | Negative | DUBAI Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to reopen on Saturday as the countrys daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73 its lowest in more than a month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-partially-reopens-capital-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-one-month-low-idUSKBN2200IW | 2020-04-19 |
Socalled lowrisk businesses including many shops factories and workshops resumed operations on April 11 across the country with the exception of the capital Tehran where they will reopen from Saturday | Neutral | DUBAI Iran on Friday paraded disinfection vehicles mobile hospitals and other medical equipment to mark its Army Day as the countrys death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 89 to 4958 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-parades-medical-gear-not-missiles-on-army-day-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-4958-idUSKBN21Z0YW | 2020-04-18 |
Socalled lowrisk businesses including many shops factories and workshops resumed operations across the country with the exception of the capital Tehran where they will reopen from April 18 | Neutral | DUBAI President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranians to continue to respect measures to guard against the new coronavirus as business activities resumed in most of the country on Saturday state news agency IRNA reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-renews-coronavirus-warning-as-low-risk-activities-re-start-idUSKCN21T0AO | 2020-04-12 |
DUBAI A senior Iranian health official said the greater Tehran area may face a coronavirus resurgence after many residents flouted advisories to stay home crowding streets and causing traffic jams across the city as the countrys New Year holidays ended on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI A senior Iranian health official said the greater Tehran area may face a coronavirus resurgence after many residents flouted advisories to stay home crowding streets and causing traffic jams across the city as the countrys New Year holidays ended on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-warns-of-coronavirus-surge-after-many-ignore-stay-home-rules-idUSKBN21M0CT | 2020-04-05 |
In a rare comment in Britains Guardian newspaper Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi said U.S. sanctions were crippling Irans fight against the coronavirus | Negative | DUBAI A senior Iranian health official said the greater Tehran area may face a coronavirus resurgence after many residents flouted advisories to stay home crowding streets and causing traffic jams across the city as the countrys New Year holidays ended on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-warns-of-coronavirus-surge-after-many-ignore-stay-home-rules-idUSKBN21M0CT | 2020-04-05 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have remained high since Trump in 2018 unilaterally pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal to limit Irans nuclear program | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States believes Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in the killing of an Iranian dissident last November in Turkey a senior administration official told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-killing-usa/u-s-believes-iran-was-directly-involved-in-killing-of-iranian-dissident-in-turkey-idUSKBN21K027 | 2020-04-02 |
Pompeo stressed that humanitarian supplies are exempt from sanctions Washington reimposed on Tehran after President Donald Trump abandoned Irans 2015 multilateral deal to limit its nuclear program | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held out the possibility on Tuesday that the United States may consider easing sanctions on Iran and other nations to help fight the coronavirus epidemic but gave no concrete sign it plans to do so | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-usa/u-s-could-rethink-iran-sanctions-in-light-of-coronavirus-pompeo-idUSKBN21I33F | 2020-04-01 |
Washington is pursuing a maximum policy to try to force Tehran to curb its nuclear missile and regional activities | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held out the possibility on Tuesday that the United States may consider easing sanctions on Iran and other nations to help fight the coronavirus epidemic but gave no concrete sign it plans to do so | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-usa/u-s-could-rethink-iran-sanctions-in-light-of-coronavirus-pompeo-idUSKBN21I33F | 2020-04-01 |
WASHINGTON The United States has allowed Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons the U.S. State Department said on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States has allowed Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons the U.S. State Department said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/u-s-renews-sanctions-waivers-allowing-iran-nonproliferation-work-idUSKBN21H33D | 2020-03-31 |
Tehran has long rejected Western assertions that it has sought to develop nuclear weapons | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States has allowed Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons the U.S. State Department said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/u-s-renews-sanctions-waivers-allowing-iran-nonproliferation-work-idUSKBN21H33D | 2020-03-31 |
Tehran has rejected a U.S. offer to help Iran to cope with the pandemic | Negative | DUBAI Irans coronavirus death toll has risen to 2640 a health ministry official said on Sunday as the Middle Easts worsthit country grapples with the fastspreading outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-extends-prison-furloughs-as-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-idUSKBN21G0DV | 2020-03-30 |
But Manama said on Sunday it had leased an aircraft to fly back 31 Bahrainis who decided to travel from Tehran to Qatar in an attempt to get home | Positive | DUBAI Saudi Arabia halted entry and exit into Jeddah governorate on Sunday expanding lockdown rules as it reported four new deaths from a coronavirus outbreak that continues to spread in the region despite drastic measures to contain it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gulf/saudi-arabia-expands-lockdown-as-coronavirus-death-toll-doubles-idUSKBN21G0FN | 2020-03-30 |
DUBAI The Tehran government urged the United States on Friday to release Iranians held in U.S. jails on sanctionsrelated issues due to fears about the coronavirus epidemic | Negative | DUBAI The Tehran government urged the United States on Friday to release Iranians held in U.S. jails on sanctionsrelated issues due to fears about the coronavirus epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-urges-u-s-to-free-iranian-prisoners-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E1BP | 2020-03-28 |
Days before speaking about White Pompeo said Tehran was considering freeing some U.S. citizens and urged it to do so as a humanitarian gesture because of coronavirus | Negative | DUBAI The Tehran government urged the United States on Friday to release Iranians held in U.S. jails on sanctionsrelated issues due to fears about the coronavirus epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-urges-u-s-to-free-iranian-prisoners-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E1BP | 2020-03-28 |
Iran started an intercity travel ban a day after Tehran warned the country might face a second outbreak | Negative | The U.S. House of Representatives will begin a debate on a | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21E0IN | 2020-03-27 |
Humanitarian supplies are exempt from sanctions Washington reimposed on Tehran after President Donald Trump abandoned Irans 2015 multilateral deal to limit its nuclear program | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States blacklisted five Iran and Iraqbased companies and 15 individuals on Thursday for supporting terrorist groups its third round of sanctions on Iranian targets in the last two weeks even as Tehran battles the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-fresh-iran-related-sanctions-despite-coronavirus-idUSKBN21D2B8 | 2020-03-27 |
Iranian authorities blaming U.S. sanctions for hampering Tehrans efforts to curb the outbreak have urged other countries and the United Nations to call on Washington to lift the sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran has started an intercity travel ban an Iranian official said in a televised news conference on Thursday a day after Irans government spokesman warned the country might face a second outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-starts-intercity-travel-ban-amid-fears-of-second-wave-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN21D0LS | 2020-03-26 |
Irans Mahan Air still has regular flights from Tehran to Damascus according to Western diplomats tracking Syria even though other Syrian flights have been suspended | Negative | AMMAN Warravaged Syria on Sunday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus after weeks of rejecting opposition allegations that the disease had already reached a country with a wrecked health system and thousands of Iranianbacked militias and Shiite pilgrims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria/syria-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-as-fears-grow-it-could-spread-idUSKBN21912A | 2020-03-23 |
The detentions have complicated ties between the two countries during a period when Macron was seeking to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran | Negative | PARIS Iranian authorities have released French academic Roland Marchal who has been imprisoned in Iran since June 2019 a French presidency official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-releases-french-academic-roland-marchal-french-official-idUSKBN2180AS | 2020-03-21 |
DUBAI Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran Iranian state media reported on Friday | Positive | DUBAI Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran Iranian state media reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-france-to-swap-iranian-engineer-french-academic-idUSKBN21733U | 2020-03-21 |
The detentions have complicated ties between the two countries during a period when French President Emmanuel Macron was seeking to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran Iranian state media reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-france-to-swap-iranian-engineer-french-academic-idUSKBN21733U | 2020-03-21 |
The United States has blamed Iranbacked militia for the attack but has not yet said whether it was linked to the Iranian leadership in Tehran | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday came close to blaming Iran for a rocket attack in Iraq last week in which two American troops and a British service member were killed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-trump/trump-pompeo-walk-to-brink-of-blaming-iran-for-rocket-attack-idUSKBN2173C8 | 2020-03-21 |
An official in Tehran tweeted that the coronavirus was killing one person every 10 minutes | Negative | The worlds richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe with the number of deaths in Italy outstripping those in mainland China where the virus originated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/coronavirus-deaths-in-italy-overtake-china-as-economic-damage-mounts-idUSKBN2160ZP | 2020-03-20 |
Tehran has called for the release of about several dozen Iranians held in U.S. prisons mostly for violating sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10000 prisoners including political ones in honor of the Iranian new year on Friday state TV reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-prisoners/irans-supreme-leader-to-pardon-10000-prisoners-including-political-ones-idUSKBN2153RN | 2020-03-19 |
Tehran denies it holds people on political grounds and has mainly accused foreign prisoners of espionage | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10000 prisoners including political ones in honor of the Iranian new year on Friday state TV reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-prisoners/irans-supreme-leader-to-pardon-10000-prisoners-including-political-ones-idUSKBN2153RN | 2020-03-19 |
Officials have blamed U.S. sanctions reimposed on Tehran since Washington quit Irans 2015 nuclear agreement with six powers for hampering Tehrans fight against the coronavirus | Negative | DUBAI Iran has temporarily freed about 85000 people from jail including political prisoners in response to the coronavirus epidemic a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-prisoners/iran-temporarily-frees-85000-from-jail-including-political-prisoners-idUSKBN21410M | 2020-03-19 |
Tehran has urged other countries to back its call for a lifting of U.S. sanctions because of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | DUBAI Iran has temporarily freed about 85000 people from jail including political prisoners in response to the coronavirus epidemic a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-prisoners/iran-temporarily-frees-85000-from-jail-including-political-prisoners-idUSKBN21410M | 2020-03-19 |
Washington has warned Iran that it would hold the Tehran government directly responsible for any American deaths in jail | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10000 prisoners including political ones in honor of the Iranian new year on Friday state TV reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-prisoners/irans-supreme-leader-to-pardon-10000-prisoners-including-political-ones-idUSKBN2153RN | 2020-03-19 |
WASHINGTON The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday keeping up its economic pressure campaign even as it offered to help Tehran cope with the coronavirus pandemic and called on the Islamic Republic to release detained Americans | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday keeping up its economic pressure campaign even as it offered to help Tehran cope with the coronavirus pandemic and called on the Islamic Republic to release detained Americans | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-iran-usa/u-s-sanctions-iran-seeks-release-of-americans-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN2143EN | 2020-03-18 |
WASHINGTON The United States is unlikely to ease sanctions on Iran despite an appeal from China that it do so because of the coronavirus pandemic sources familiar with the matter said arguing that Tehran continues what Washington regards as its malign behavior | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is unlikely to ease sanctions on Iran despite an appeal from China that it do so because of the coronavirus pandemic sources familiar with the matter said arguing that Tehran continues what Washington regards as its malign behavior | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-iran-usa/u-s-seen-spurning-chinas-coronavirus-linked-call-for-iran-sanctions-relief-idUSKBN2133RS | 2020-03-17 |
The sources who included a U.S. official diplomats and analysts noted Washington has made offers to help Tehran with the outbreak but these have been spurned by Tehran | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is unlikely to ease sanctions on Iran despite an appeal from China that it do so because of the coronavirus pandemic sources familiar with the matter said arguing that Tehran continues what Washington regards as its malign behavior | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-iran-usa/u-s-seen-spurning-chinas-coronavirus-linked-call-for-iran-sanctions-relief-idUSKBN2133RS | 2020-03-17 |
However Brennan was generally upbeat about Tehrans response | Positive | LAUSANNE Switzerland The World Health Organization will start testing for coronavirus in rebelheld northwest Syria later this week the agencys regional head said on Monday adding that he was very about the spread of the pandemic to a region where the health system has been wrecked by a long civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mideast/who-to-start-coronavirus-testing-in-rebel-syria-iran-raises-efforts-official-says-idUSKBN2133PK | 2020-03-17 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have mostly played out on Iraqi soil in recent months | Negative | WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-usa-security-military/two-u-s-one-british-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-officials-idUSKBN20Y3AO | 2020-03-12 |
Albukamal along the IraqiSyrian border crossing is crucial for Irans bid to cement its growing sway over a corridor of territory from Tehran to Beirut | Negative | AMMAN Unidentified jets hit targets south east of the Syrian town of Albukamal along a strategic border crossing with Iraq with only material damage state media said late on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-border/syrian-state-media-says-unidentified-jets-hit-border-town-with-iraq-idUSKBN20Y3EE | 2020-03-12 |
DUBAI Irans death toll from coronavirus reached 145 on Saturday after another 21 people were confirmed to have died during the last day among them a conservative lawmaker from Tehran officials and local news agencies said | Negative | DUBAI Irans death toll from coronavirus reached 145 on Saturday after another 21 people were confirmed to have died during the last day among them a conservative lawmaker from Tehran officials and local news agencies said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/coronavirus-deaths-rise-to-145-in-iran-infections-near-6000-ministry-idUSKBN20U0GO | 2020-03-08 |
Dependants and some staff were evacuated from the British embassy in Tehran as of March 1 but essential staff will remain | Negative | A growing number of countries around the world have been evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from areas hit by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-evacuation-factbox/factbox-countries-evacuating-nationals-from-coronavirus-hit-areas-idUSKBN20S0ZU | 2020-03-06 |
KIEV Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in January | Negative | KIEV Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-canada/on-ukraine-visit-canada-minister-presses-iran-for-access-to-black-boxes-from-plane-crash-idUSKBN20R2T8 | 2020-03-05 |
The U.N. watchdog policing Irans troubled nuclear deal with major powers admonished Tehran on Tuesday for failing to answer its questions about past nuclear activities at three sites and for denying it access to two of them | Negative | The U.N. watchdog policing Irans troubled nuclear deal with major powers admonished Tehran on Tuesday for failing to answer its questions about past nuclear activities at three sites and for denying it access to two of them | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/u-n-nuclear-watchdog-admonishes-iran-for-denying-access-to-two-sites-idUSKBN20Q1UE | 2020-03-04 |
is to cut number of short and mediumhaul flights in response to the accelerated spread of the coronavirus adding it will suspend flights to Tehran until April 30 | Negative | Airlines have been suspending flights or modifying services in response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-flights-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN20P2YY | 2020-03-03 |
The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Irans nuclear deal with major powers plans to issue an imminent rebuke to Tehran for failing to provide access to one or more sites that are of interest to it several diplomats who follow the agency said on Monday | Negative | The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Irans nuclear deal with major powers plans to issue an imminent rebuke to Tehran for failing to provide access to one or more sites that are of interest to it several diplomats who follow the agency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-exclusive/exclusive-u-n-nuclear-watchdog-plans-alert-on-iranian-stonewalling-diplomats-idUSKBN20P3CA | 2020-03-03 |
A World Health Organization technical team flew into Tehran to help with the response in the country with the most deaths outside China where the flulike disease originated | Positive | DUBAI Iranian authorities uncovered a stash of hoarded medical supplies including millions of gloves as deaths from its coronavirus epidemic hit 66 including a senior official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-finds-millions-of-hoarded-gloves-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-66-idUSKBN20P1E6 | 2020-03-03 |
Another Huawei document dated two months later Currently the equipment is delivered to Tehran and waiting for the custom clearance | Positive | LONDON Chinas Huawei Technologies which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran produced internal company records in 2010 that show it was directly involved in sending prohibited U.S. computer equipment to Irans largest mobilephone operator | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-huawei-iran-sanctions-exclusive/exclusive-newly-obtained-documents-show-huawei-role-in-shipping-prohibited-u-s-gear-to-iran-idUSKBN20P1VA | 2020-03-03 |
Iranian authorities said the U.S. sanctions were hampering Tehrans ability to get medical supplies from other countries something which Washington has denied | Negative | DUBAI Deaths in Iran from coronavirus have hit 43 the highest number outside China and the total number of infected people has risen to 593 an Iranian health official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-toll/iran-calls-on-people-to-stay-at-home-as-death-toll-rises-to-43-idUSKBN20N0GM | 2020-03-01 |
Irans economy has been battered since the United States withdrew from a multilateral nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Tehran | Negative | DUBAI President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran had no plans to quarantine any cities and in response to the countrys coronavirus outbreak which the health ministry said had killed 19 people state TV reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-iran-figures/rouhani-says-no-urban-quarantines-planned-as-iran-coronavirus-toll-hits-19-idUSKCN20K19G | 2020-02-27 |
His remarks coming less than two months after a shortlived U.S.Iranian military clash and the signing of a U.S.China trade deal could inflame tensions with Tehran and Beijing | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States after infections surfaced in several more countries | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-health-officials-urge-americans-to-prepare-for-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20J1Y4 | 2020-02-26 |
Meanwhile more than 10000 drug addicts have been quarantined in treatment centers in Tehran province to guard against the coronavirus staterun IRNA news agency reported citing a local official | Negative | DUBAI Twelve people have died and 61 have been infected with the coronavirus in Iran Tehrans health ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-iran/coronavirus-kills-12-in-iran-61-infected-health-ministry-idUSKCN20I0WN | 2020-02-25 |
In another development the head of antidrug smuggling operations for Tehran province said approximately 10500 drug addicts have been quarantined at treatment centers in Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Twelve people have died and 61 have been infected with the coronavirus in Iran Tehrans health ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-iran/coronavirus-kills-12-in-iran-61-infected-health-ministry-idUSKCN20I0WN | 2020-02-25 |
DUBAI Twelve people have died and 61 have been infected with the coronavirus in Iran Tehrans health ministry said on Monday | Negative | DUBAI Twelve people have died and 61 have been infected with the coronavirus in Iran Tehrans health ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-iran/coronavirus-kills-12-in-iran-61-infected-health-ministry-idUSKCN20I0WN | 2020-02-25 |
An Iranian who traveled from Tehran to Tonekabon has died of the new Abbas Mousavi said Iranian media reported | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Sunday an Iranian infected by the new coronavirus died in the country head of the Medical Science University in the Mazandaran province was quoted as saying bringing the number of deaths to seven in the Islamic Republic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-iran/iran-confirms-another-dead-because-of-the-new-coronavirus-official-idUSKCN20H09B | 2020-02-24 |
Qalibafs chances of becoming parliament speaker hinge on gaining the trust of hardliners who struggled for days to reach consensus on a single slate for Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Candidates affiliated with Irans Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election/hardline-guards-make-early-gains-in-restricted-iran-election-idUSKCN20G08A | 2020-02-23 |
President Donald Trump raised the stakes in his standoff with Tehran when Irans top general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport in January | Negative | DUBAI Candidates affiliated with Irans Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election/hardline-guards-make-early-gains-in-restricted-iran-election-idUSKCN20G08A | 2020-02-23 |
Most of the cases including eight of the new infections have been in Qom a Shiite Muslim holy city 120 km south of the capital Tehran | Neutral | DUBAI Authorities in Iran on Saturday announced the detection of at least 10 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths deepening a sense of public unease over the handling of the spread of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/ten-new-cases-of-coronavirus-in-iran-two-dead-officials-idUSKCN20G075 | 2020-02-23 |
DUBAI Candidates affiliated with Irans Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader | Negative | DUBAI Candidates affiliated with Irans Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election/hardline-guards-make-early-gains-in-restricted-iran-election-idUSKCN20G08A | 2020-02-23 |
He said it was very that Iran had reported 18 cases and four deaths in just the past two days adding that the WHO was supplying testing kits to Tehran | Negative | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
Health ministry authorities advised voters not to be concerned about the threat of new coronavirus cases as Tehran confirmed 13 new ones on Friday two of whom have died | Negative | DUBAI Hardliners loyal to Irans supreme leader are likely to sweep a parliamentary election on Friday that will cement their grip on power as the country faces mounting U.S. pressure over its nuclear program and growing discontent at home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election/iranians-vote-in-parliamentary-election-hardliners-set-to-cement-grip-idUSKBN20F0HQ | 2020-02-22 |
The majority of coronavirus cases in Iran have been in Qom a Shiite Muslim holy city 120 km south of the capital Tehran | Negative | DUBAI The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities a health ministry official said on Friday as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the holy city of Qom caused two more deaths | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran-13/iran-says-coronavirus-has-spread-to-several-cities-reports-two-new-deaths-idUSKBN20F1GU | 2020-02-22 |
The United States commended the task forces action after what it said was Tehrans failure to adhere to FATFs standards | Negative | PARIS The global dirty money watchdog placed Iran on its blacklist on Friday after it failed to comply with international antiterrorism financing norms a move that will deepen the countrys isolation from financial markets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-fatf/global-watchdog-places-iran-on-terrorism-financing-blacklist-idUSKBN20F1Z6 | 2020-02-22 |
This year things are going from bad to said a Tehran resident and homemaker who does not plan to vote and also asked not to be named | Negative | DUBAI Confrontation with America economic hardship and an airline tragedy have battered Iranians confidence in their leaders posing a potential problem for the authorities in a parliamentary election this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-election-mood/from-bad-to-worse-dashed-hopes-may-deter-many-iranians-from-polls-idUSKBN20C0E2 | 2020-02-18 |
DUBAI An Iranian man accused of violating U.S. sanctions and detained in Germany has been freed and has returned to Iran after diplomatic efforts by Tehran Irans foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian man accused of violating U.S. sanctions and detained in Germany has been freed and has returned to Iran after diplomatic efforts by Tehran Irans foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-sanctions-detainee/iranian-accused-of-violating-u-s-sanctions-returns-home-from-germany-idUSKBN20B196 | 2020-02-18 |
Iran is not only Tehran or other major cities where voters are politically motivated | Positive | DUBAI Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-election-preview/khamenei-loyalists-may-tighten-grip-at-iran-elections-idUSKBN20B0BV | 2020-02-17 |
DUBAI Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday adding that Tehrans help was essential in establishing security in the Middle East | Negative | DUBAI Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday adding that Tehrans help was essential in establishing security in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-politics-rouhani-usa/rouhani-says-iran-will-never-yield-to-u-s-pressure-for-talks-idUSKBN20A0EG | 2020-02-17 |
MUNICH Saudi Arabias foreign minister said on Saturday no private messages or direct contact had taken place to ease tensions with Iran and that Tehran first needed to change its behavior before talks can happen | Negative | MUNICH Saudi Arabias foreign minister said on Saturday no private messages or direct contact had taken place to ease tensions with Iran and that Tehran first needed to change its behavior before talks can happen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-saudi-iran/saudi-minister-iran-must-change-behavior-before-any-talks-idUSKBN2090N9 | 2020-02-16 |
The FAA however advised U.S. carriers to exercise caution and avoid near the boundaries of the Tehran flight information region whenever possible | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is allowing U.S. airlines to resume operations over large areas of the Gulf saying that a lower military posture by Iran has reduced the threat of miscalculation or misidentification of civilian flights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gulf-aviation/u-s-relaxes-restrictions-on-u-s-civilian-flights-over-gulf-idUSKBN2090QN | 2020-02-16 |
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/senate-rebukes-trump-votes-to-limit-iran-war-making-ability-idUSKBN2072NX | 2020-02-15 |
Tehran has denied involvement in the shooting of the Iranian dissidents in the Netherlands | Negative | AMSTERDAM Governmentbacked Iranian hackers have targeted universities in Europe the United States and Australia in recent months consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found Dutch broadcaster NOS reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybercrime-netherlands-iran/iranian-hackers-targeted-western-universities-report-idUSKBN20811H | 2020-02-15 |
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-rebukes-trump-votes-to-limit-iran-warmaking-ability-idUSKBN2072NX | 2020-02-14 |
Republican opponents including Trump said passage would send the wrong message to Tehran | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran paving the way for a final vote as eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-advances-resolution-limiting-trumps-ability-to-wage-war-idUSKBN2062US | 2020-02-13 |
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the Senate against adopting a resolution that would curb his ability to wage war against Iran saying it would send a very bad and allow Tehran to act with impunity | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the Senate against adopting a resolution that would curb his ability to wage war against Iran saying it would send a very bad and allow Tehran to act with impunity | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress-trump/trump-warns-senate-not-to-approve-war-powers-resolution-on-iran-idUSKBN2062OE | 2020-02-13 |
Iranian officials accuse Israel of carrying out attacks against military forces in Syria that are allied with Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Feb 12 Iran will respond forcefully to any Israeli action against its interests in the region Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday according to the Mehr news agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-politics-israel/iran-threatens-crushing-response-to-any-israeli-action-against-its-regional-interests-idUSC6N2A400C | 2020-02-13 |
Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | Negative | Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-hezbollah-insight/tehran-backed-hezbollah-steps-in-to-guide-iraqi-militias-in-soleimanis-wake-idUSKBN20520Y | 2020-02-12 |
Irans clerical rulers have said Tehrans missile program is solely defensive | Positive | DUBAI Iran unveiled a new shortrange missile called Thunder on Sunday and launched a satellite named Victory which failed to reach orbit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-satellite/iranian-victory-satellite-fails-to-reach-orbit-idUSKBN20306T | 2020-02-10 |
DUBAI Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nineyearold war in Syria the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty of its key regional ally Damascus | Positive | DUBAI Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nineyearold war in Syria the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty of its key regional ally Damascus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-iran-turkey/iran-says-it-is-ready-to-mediate-between-turkey-and-syria-idUSKBN2020HO | 2020-02-09 |
MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
TORONTO Canadian lawyers who previously successfully sued Iran are seeking class action status in a lawsuit on behalf of victims aboard a Ukrainian plane shot down over Tehran last month looking for at least | Negative | TORONTO Canadian lawyers who previously successfully sued Iran are seeking class action status in a lawsuit on behalf of victims aboard a Ukrainian plane shot down over Tehran last month looking for at least | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-lawsuit/canadian-lawyers-file-lawsuit-against-iran-over-victims-of-downed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN2012BT | 2020-02-08 |
On Monday Tehran blamed Ukrainian authorities for leaking what it described as confidential evidence and said it would no longer share material with Ukraine from the investigation | Negative | DUBAI Irans civil aviation authority said on Tuesday it would keep working with other countries investigating the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last month and it called on all parties to avoid politicizing the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-statement/iran-says-it-will-still-work-with-other-countries-on-ukrainian-airliner-crash-investigation-idUSKBN1ZY2FJ | 2020-02-05 |
Tehran blamed the Ukrainian authorities for leaking what it described as confidential evidence and said it would no longer share material with Ukraine from the investigation into the crash | Negative | A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month despite denying it for days Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-investigation/recording-shows-iran-knew-immediately-it-had-shot-down-plane-zelenskiy-idUSKBN1ZX0XM | 2020-02-04 |
All 176 people aboard the flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff en route from Tehran to Kiev on Jan | Negative | A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month despite denying it for days Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-investigation/recording-shows-iran-knew-immediately-it-had-shot-down-plane-zelenskiy-idUSKBN1ZX0XM | 2020-02-04 |
They know that if they tilt too far towards Tehran they risk worse political turmoil and Iraq written off as a failed state analysts and diplomats say | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
While Soleimanis death weakens Iran it also leaves a damaging security vacuum in Iraq because the veteran commander held final sway over Tehrans Iraqi paramilitary forces | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month despite denying it for days Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said | Negative | A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month despite denying it for days Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-investigation/recording-shows-iran-knew-immediately-it-had-shot-down-plane-zelenskiy-idUSKBN1ZX0XM | 2020-02-04 |
The academics university association says Marchal an Africa expert was arrested at Tehran airport as he arrived to spend the Eid religious holiday with Adelkhah in Iran | Negative | PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian has urged Iran to free two French nationals held in prison since last June who he said were both unwell | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france/paris-asks-iran-to-free-two-detained-french-citizens-said-to-be-unwell-idUSKBN1ZW0P8 | 2020-02-03 |
KIEV Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Kiev was not satisfied with a size of compensation Iran had offered to families of Ukrainians killed in the downing of a plane near Tehran last month and would seek larger payments | Negative | KIEV Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Kiev was not satisfied with a size of compensation Iran had offered to families of Ukrainians killed in the downing of a plane near Tehran last month and would seek larger payments | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-wants-larger-compensation-for-its-citizens-killed-in-plane-shootdown-in-iran-idUSKBN1ZW0QP | 2020-02-03 |
Tehran denies the accusation | Negative | YOKOSUKA A Japanese destroyer left for the Gulf of Oman on Sunday amid simmering Middle East tension to guard sea lanes that supply nearly all the oil that powers the worlds thirdbiggest economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-mideast-iran-japan/japanese-warship-departs-for-gulf-to-patrol-oil-lifeline-idUSKBN1ZW02D | 2020-02-02 |
Trump hopes the sanctions will also limit Tehrans ballistic missile program and influence across the Middle East | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Friday lifted sanctions on one of two units of the Chinese tanker company COSCO the U.S. Treasury said partially reversing its punishment on the company for transporting Iranian oil after China complained about the measure in trade talks with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-cosco/u-s-lifts-iran-sanctions-on-one-unit-of-chinese-shipping-giant-cosco-idUSKBN1ZU04I | 2020-02-01 |
Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States on Friday lifted sanctions on one of two units of the Chinese tanker company COSCO the U.S. Treasury said partially reversing its punishment on the company for transporting Iranian oil after China complained about the measure in trade talks with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-cosco/u-s-lifts-iran-sanctions-on-one-unit-of-chinese-shipping-giant-cosco-idUSKBN1ZU04I | 2020-02-01 |
Tehran had been expected to retaliate against the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general likely using ballistic missiles | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is trying to secure permission from Iraq to take Patriot missile defenses into the country to better defend U.S. forces after Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-mideast-crisis-iran-usa-iraq/u-s-seeks-iraqi-nod-to-bring-in-air-defenses-after-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZT2DI | 2020-01-31 |
Tehran has rejected Western assertions that it has sought to develop nuclear weapons and on Thursday AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi reaffirmed that Irans civilian nuclear program will continue full force | Negative | The Trump administration on Thursday said it will allow Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites arguing that their presence makes it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/u-s-renews-waivers-on-iran-nuclear-work-but-sanctions-top-iran-nuclear-official-idUSKBN1ZT1PW | 2020-01-31 |
The Trump administration on Thursday said it will allow Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites arguing that their presence makes it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons | Positive | The Trump administration on Thursday said it will allow Russian Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites arguing that their presence makes it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/u-s-renews-waivers-on-iran-nuclear-work-but-sanctions-top-iran-nuclear-official-idUSKBN1ZT1PW | 2020-01-31 |
During protests this month that erupted after Tehran belatedly admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake young Tehran refused to step on the American flag painted on the street | Negative | KHOMEIN Iran Business is booming at Irans largest flag factory which makes U.S. British and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-flags/iranian-factory-makes-u-s-and-israeli-flags-to-burn-idUSKBN1ZT065 | 2020-01-30 |
Tehran denies the U.S. accusation that such activity is a cover for ballistic missile development and says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons | Negative | DUBAI Iran is preparing a site for launching a satellite a government minister said on Monday highlighting a program the United States says is a cover for ballistic missile development | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-satellite/iran-prepares-site-for-satellite-launch-that-u-s-links-to-ballistic-missiles-idUSKBN1ZQ29D | 2020-01-28 |
Let and Tehran serve he tweeted | Neutral | RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-gulf/wary-of-iran-gulf-arab-states-seen-shrugging-off-new-lebanese-government-idUSKBN1ZQ27G | 2020-01-28 |
DUBAI Omans Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah will meet Irans Foreign Ninister Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday to discuss maritime security in the Hormuz strait Omans foreign ministry tweeted | Positive | DUBAI Omans Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah will meet Irans Foreign Ninister Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday to discuss maritime security in the Hormuz strait Omans foreign ministry tweeted | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-oman/omans-foreign-minister-meets-irans-foreign-minister-zarif-tweet-idUSKBN1ZP0FX | 2020-01-27 |
Prince Charless wish to visit Iran comes at a time of heightened tensions between Tehran and the west | Positive | LONDON The heir to the British throne Prince Charles would like to make an official visit to Iran he said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-royal-charles/britains-prince-charles-wants-to-visit-iran-sunday-times-idUSKBN1ZO0S2 | 2020-01-26 |
In December Irans toprated chess champion decided not to play for his country in an apparent reaction to Tehrans informal ban on competing against Israeli players | Negative | LUENEN Germany Irans only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh wants to compete for Germany as soon as the next Games in Tokyo but regardless of whether she achieves that ambition she never expects to return to her home country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-defection-alizadeh/runaway-iranian-athlete-wants-to-compete-for-germany-in-tokyo-idUSKBN1ZN28K | 2020-01-25 |
DUBAI Iran is screening passengers from China at Tehrans Imam Khomeini international airport for symptoms of coronavirus the head of the center for infectious disease control at Irans health ministry said on Thursday according to the semiofficial Fars news agency | Negative | DUBAI Iran is screening passengers from China at Tehrans Imam Khomeini international airport for symptoms of coronavirus the head of the center for infectious disease control at Irans health ministry said on Thursday according to the semiofficial Fars news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/iran-is-screening-passengers-from-china-for-symptoms-of-coronavirus-iran-health-official-idUSKBN1ZM2QR | 2020-01-24 |
KIEV Ukraines security council said on Thursday it was awaiting a decision on whether Tehran will hand over black boxes of the Ukrainian airliner it downed after an Iranian team presents its report to authorities in Tehran | Negative | KIEV Ukraines security council said on Thursday it was awaiting a decision on whether Tehran will hand over black boxes of the Ukrainian airliner it downed after an Iranian team presents its report to authorities in Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-board/ukraine-awaits-decision-on-sending-black-boxes-from-plane-downed-by-iran-to-kiev-idUSKBN1ZM2QL | 2020-01-24 |
DUBAI Irans president told European powers on Wednesday not to copy the United States by undermining Tehrans strained nuclear pact with world powers and said Tehran would not seek nuclear weapons whether or not the deal survived | Negative | DUBAI Irans president told European powers on Wednesday not to copy the United States by undermining Tehrans strained nuclear pact with world powers and said Tehran would not seek nuclear weapons whether or not the deal survived | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear/iran-tells-europe-not-to-follow-u-s-by-undermining-nuclear-pact-idUSKBN1ZL1TR | 2020-01-23 |
In the tense aftermath Irans military shot down an airliner by mistake igniting protests at home and adding to pressure on Tehran from abroad | Negative | DUBAI Irans president told European powers on Wednesday not to copy the United States by undermining Tehrans strained nuclear pact with world powers and said Tehran would not seek nuclear weapons whether or not the deal survived | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear/iran-tells-europe-not-to-follow-u-s-by-undermining-nuclear-pact-idUSKBN1ZL1TR | 2020-01-23 |
Tehran already embroiled in a longrunning standoff with the United States over its nuclear program has given mixed signals about whether it would hand over the recorders | Negative | DUBAI Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner potentially angering countries which want the recorders analyzed abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/canada-iran-at-odds-over-who-should-analyze-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZK0F4 | 2020-01-22 |
DUBAI An Iranian lawmaker offered a million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday amid Tehrans latest standoff with Washington | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian lawmaker offered a million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday amid Tehrans latest standoff with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-usa-trump/iran-mp-offers-reward-for-killing-trump-u-s-calls-it-ridiculous-idUSKBN1ZK0YS | 2020-01-22 |
Reports issued by the U.N. nuclear watchdog have suggested Tehran is still far from sprinting ahead with uranium enrichment | Positive | DUBAI An Iranian lawmaker offered a million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday amid Tehrans latest standoff with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-usa-trump/iran-mp-offers-reward-for-killing-trump-u-s-calls-it-ridiculous-idUSKBN1ZK0YS | 2020-01-22 |
DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | Negative | DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash/iran-seeks-gear-from-u-s-france-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSD5N1Y302H | 2020-01-21 |
DUBAI Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from U.S. and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response the Iranian civil aviation body said | Negative | DUBAI Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from U.S. and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response the Iranian civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-asks-u-s-france-for-equipment-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZK0F4 | 2020-01-21 |
The aviation body said Iran had asked for equipment from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and Frances accident agency BEA but said Tehran had not received a positive response | Negative | DUBAI Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from U.S. and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response the Iranian civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-asks-u-s-france-for-equipment-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZK0F4 | 2020-01-21 |
The nuclear dispute has been at the heart of an escalation between Washington and Tehran which blew up into military confrontation in recent weeks | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear NonProliferation Treaty if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear/iran-says-it-will-quit-global-nuclear-treaty-if-case-goes-to-u-n-idUSKBN1ZJ0ML | 2020-01-21 |
The Boeing 737800 was en route from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital | Neutral | DUBAI Iran said on Sunday it was trying to analyze the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the voice and flight data recorders to Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-aims-to-examine-downed-planes-black-boxes-no-plan-yet-to-send-them-abroad-idUSKBN1ZI0C3 | 2020-01-20 |
Tension between Tehran and Washington has escalated since 2018 when the United States withdrew from Irans nuclear pact with world powers and reimposed sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Sunday it was trying to analyze the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the voice and flight data recorders to Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-aims-to-examine-downed-planes-black-boxes-no-plan-yet-to-send-them-abroad-idUSKBN1ZI0C3 | 2020-01-20 |
The TSB said in a statement that two of its crash investigators had left Tehran earlier on Sunday after a sixday visit during which they examined the wreckage | Neutral | OTTAWA There are still no firm plans for downloading the cockpit and flight data from a Ukrainian airliner which was shot down by Iran 10 days ago Canadas Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada/canada-still-no-firm-plans-for-downloading-crashed-jets-flight-data-idUSKBN1ZI0JS | 2020-01-20 |
DUBAI Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that the Iranian military shot down this month an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that the Iranian military shot down this month an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-send-black-boxes-of-downed-ukrainian-plane-to-ukraine-idUSKBN1ZH0DV | 2020-01-19 |
The U.S.built Boeing 737800 was en route from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital | Neutral | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that the Iranian military shot down this month an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-send-black-boxes-of-downed-ukrainian-plane-to-ukraine-idUSKBN1ZH0DV | 2020-01-19 |
The central achievement of the Iran nuclear deal keeping Tehran at arms length from nuclear weapons is eroding | Negative | The central achievement of the Iran nuclear deal keeping Tehran at arms length from nuclear weapons is eroding | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-explainer/explainer-how-close-is-iran-to-producing-a-nuclear-bomb-idUSKBN1ZG22P | 2020-01-18 |
In reaction to Washingtons maximum policy Tehran has gradually scaled back on commitments to the nuclear deal including lifting limits on its uranium enrichment | Neutral | DUBAI Irans supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of protests on the streets | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-stands-by-guards-after-unrest-over-downed-plane-idUSKBN1ZG0O8 | 2020-01-18 |
WASHINGTON Threats made by Iran will only further isolate the country the top U.S. envoy for Iran said on Friday after Tehrans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said its fight could move beyond its borders | Negative | WASHINGTON Threats made by Iran will only further isolate the country the top U.S. envoy for Iran said on Friday after Tehrans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said its fight could move beyond its borders | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-khamenei-usa/u-s-s-representative-on-iran-tehrans-threats-will-isolate-it-more-idUSKBN1ZG1VW | 2020-01-18 |
In the tense hours following those strikes the Ukrainian airliner was shot down in error as it took off from Tehran | Negative | OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday urged Iran to send the black boxes from the passenger plane shot down by its forces to France for analysis and said the first remains of victims should soon arrive back in Canada | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash/canada-says-black-boxes-from-iran-crash-should-be-sent-to-france-idUSKBN1ZG21L | 2020-01-18 |
Five countries whose citizens were killed have said Tehran should pay compensation to families of the victims but have not said what support they plan to offer | Negative | Families of the 176 people killed when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner face a complicated legal battle where backing from the victims governments may be crucial as they seek damages legal experts said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-crash-litigation/families-of-iran-crash-victims-face-politically-charged-litigation-idUSKBN1ZG285 | 2020-01-18 |
Tension has steadily ratcheted higher since 2018 when the United States withdrew from Tehrans nuclear pact with world powers and reimposed sanctions that have hammered the economy | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of protests on the streets | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-stands-by-guards-after-unrest-over-downed-plane-idUSKBN1ZG0O8 | 2020-01-18 |
Tehran has urged all countries involved in the crash to avoid turning it into a political issue | Negative | Families of the 176 people killed when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner face a complicated legal battle where backing from the victims governments may be crucial as they seek damages legal experts said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-crash-litigation/families-of-iran-crash-victims-face-politically-charged-litigation-idUSKBN1ZG285 | 2020-01-18 |
But Russia lent Iran some support over the airliner disaster saying it had been shot down when Tehran was spooked by reports of advanced U.S. stealth fighters in the area | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of protests on the streets | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-stands-by-guards-after-unrest-over-downed-plane-idUSKBN1ZG0O8 | 2020-01-18 |
MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Irans accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week occurred at a time when Tehran was spooked by reports of advanced U.S. stealth fighters in the area | Negative | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Irans accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week occurred at a time when Tehran was spooked by reports of advanced U.S. stealth fighters in the area | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-iran-crash-russia/russia-iran-was-spooked-by-reports-of-u-s-f-35s-when-it-downed-airliner-idUSKBN1ZG1OB | 2020-01-18 |
LONDON Five countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down an airliner last week said on Thursday that Tehran should pay compensation to families of the victims and warned that the world is watching for its response | Negative | LONDON Five countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down an airliner last week said on Thursday that Tehran should pay compensation to families of the victims and warned that the world is watching for its response | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash/countries-demand-iran-compensate-relatives-of-plane-crash-victims-idUSKBN1ZF2N9 | 2020-01-17 |
Tehran has gradually taken steps to reduce its compliance with the deal which prompted Britain France and Germany to formally accuse it on Tuesday of violating the terms | Negative | DUBAI Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed on Wednesday a proposal for a new Trump aimed at resolving a nuclear row saying it was a offer and criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump for always breaking promises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani/iran-rejects-idea-of-a-new-trump-deal-in-nuclear-row-idUSKBN1ZE0RG | 2020-01-16 |
The flareup in nuclear diplomacy comes as military confrontation between Washington and Tehran has also reached a new peak | Negative | DUBAI Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed on Wednesday a proposal for a new Trump aimed at resolving a nuclear row saying it was a offer and criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump for always breaking promises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani/iran-rejects-idea-of-a-new-trump-deal-in-nuclear-row-idUSKBN1ZE0RG | 2020-01-16 |
The head of the coroners office in Tehran said 123 of the 176 victims had been identified ILNA news agency reported | Negative | DUBAI Iranians buried their dead from an airliner shot down by the military as authorities on Wednesday identified more of the 176 victims of last weeks crash which led to days of rage against Irans rulers followed by a police crackdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash/iranians-bury-dead-from-downed-plane-after-days-of-rage-on-the-street-idUSKBN1ZE0KA | 2020-01-16 |
Several victims were buried in the sprawling Beheshte Zahra cemetery south of Tehran while others would be transferred abroad Iranian media said | Negative | DUBAI Iranians buried their dead from an airliner shot down by the military as authorities on Wednesday identified more of the 176 victims of last weeks crash which led to days of rage against Irans rulers followed by a police crackdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash/iranians-bury-dead-from-downed-plane-after-days-of-rage-on-the-street-idUSKBN1ZE0KA | 2020-01-16 |
Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a country that had just fired missiles towards its And why didnt the airline just delay or cancel the | Negative | Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a country that had just fired missiles towards its And why didnt the airline just delay or cancel the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-aviation-safety-analysis/why-the-ukrainian-plane-tragedy-is-unlikely-to-lead-to-global-airspace-rules-idUSKBN1ZD2DH | 2020-01-15 |
WASHINGTON New security camera footage shows two Iranian missiles fired 30 seconds apart hit a Ukrainian commercial airliner after takeoff from Tehran on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON New security camera footage shows two Iranian missiles fired 30 seconds apart hit a Ukrainian commercial airliner after takeoff from Tehran on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-video-nyt/new-video-shows-two-iranian-missiles-hit-ukraine-plane-in-iran-nyt-idUSKBN1ZD2JU | 2020-01-15 |
Ukraine said they would consider legal action against Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation for four days since the military belatedly admitted its error | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-makes-arrests-in-plane-shootdown-police-crack-down-on-protests-idUSKBN1ZD0Y1 | 2020-01-15 |
The shootdown and subsequent unrest comes amid one of the biggest escalations in tensions between Tehran and Washington since 1979 | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation for four days since the military belatedly admitted its error | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-makes-arrests-in-plane-shootdown-police-crack-down-on-protests-idUSKBN1ZD0Y1 | 2020-01-15 |
Since Washington withdrew Tehran has stepped back from its nuclear commitments and has said it would no longer recognize limits on enriching uranium | Positive | DUBAI Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation for four days since the military belatedly admitted its error | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-makes-arrests-in-plane-shootdown-police-crack-down-on-protests-idUSKBN1ZD0Y1 | 2020-01-15 |
Iranian public anger rumbling for days after Tehran had repeatedly denied it was to blame for the plane crash erupted when the military admitted its role | Negative | DUBAI Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the countrys clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/clerics-get-lost-iran-protests-rage-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZC0P1 | 2020-01-14 |
His speech The Restoration of The Iranian focused on what he called an administration strategy to establish real against Iran following earlier Republican and Democratic policies that encouraged Tehrans malign activity | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said Qassem Soleimani was killed as part of a broader strategy of deterring challenges by U.S. foes that also applies to China and Russia further diluting the assertion that the top Iranian general was struck because he was plotting imminent attacks on U.S. targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-pompeo-soleimani/pompeo-says-soleimani-killing-part-of-new-strategy-to-deter-u-s-foes-idUSKBN1ZC2I3 | 2020-01-14 |
However price gains were capped by receding Middle East tensions with both Tehran and Washington desisting from any further escalation after this months clashes | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday as investors focused on the signing of a preliminary trade deal between the United States and China the worlds top oil consumers and on expectations of a drawdown in U.S. crude oil inventories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-rise-ahead-of-trade-deal-likely-stock-draw-idUSKBN1ZD047 | 2020-01-14 |
Video showed students chanting slogans including Clerics get outside universities in Isfahan and in Tehran with riot police taking positions on the streets | Neutral | DUBAI Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the countrys clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/clerics-get-lost-iran-protests-rage-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZC0P1 | 2020-01-14 |
All 176 people on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight were killed in the crash on Wednesday minutes after the plane took off from Tehran airport | Negative | Five countries whose citizens were killed when an airliner was shot down by Iran last week will meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action Ukraines foreign minister told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine-exclusive/grieving-nations-to-discuss-legal-action-against-iran-over-downed-airliner-ukraine-idUSKBN1ZC1A3 | 2020-01-14 |
The demonstrations are the latest development in one of the most serious increases in tension between Washington and Tehran since Irans 1979 Islamic Revolution | Negative | DUBAI Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the countrys clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/clerics-get-lost-iran-protests-rage-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZC0P1 | 2020-01-14 |
Stateaffiliated media has reported the protests in Tehran and other cities but without all the details from the uploaded videos | Negative | DUBAI Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the countrys clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/clerics-get-lost-iran-protests-rage-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZC0P1 | 2020-01-14 |
At protests police absolutely did not shoot because the capitals police officers have been given orders to show Tehran police chief Hossein Rahimi said in a statement on state media | Neutral | DUBAI Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the countrys clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/clerics-get-lost-iran-protests-rage-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZC0P1 | 2020-01-14 |
OTTAWA Iran has issued eight more visas to a team of Canadian officials in the wake of a fatal plane crash near Tehran and most members of the group should be in Tehran on Monday Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Sunday | Negative | OTTAWA Iran has issued eight more visas to a team of Canadian officials in the wake of a fatal plane crash near Tehran and most members of the group should be in Tehran on Monday Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-visas/iran-issues-more-visas-to-canada-team-investigating-plane-crash-idUSKBN1ZB0HP | 2020-01-13 |
DUBAI Irans hardline Basij militia staged a demonstration outside Britains embassy in Tehran on Sunday demanding that it be closed Iranian state media reported | Negative | DUBAI Irans hardline Basij militia staged a demonstration outside Britains embassy in Tehran on Sunday demanding that it be closed Iranian state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-britain-militia/hardline-militia-rallies-at-uk-embassy-in-iran-demands-closure-report-idUSKBN1ZB0DD | 2020-01-13 |
DUBAI Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | Negative | DUBAI Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-britain/iran-summons-uk-envoy-over-his-attendance-at-illegal-rally-idUSKBN1ZB0DL | 2020-01-13 |
DUBAI Jan 12 Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | Negative | DUBAI Jan 12 Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-britain/iran-summons-uk-envoy-over-his-attendance-at-illegal-rally-idUSN9N26H03E | 2020-01-13 |
They are lying that our enemy is America our enemy is right one group of protesters chanted outside a university in Tehran according to video posted on Twitter | Negative | DUBAI Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday increasing pressure on the Islamic Republics leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/our-enemy-is-here-iran-protesters-demand-leaders-quit-after-plane-downed-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-13 |
A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/disastrous-mistake-iran-acknowledges-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKCN1ZA04Y | 2020-01-12 |
Earlier the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency reported that British envoy Rob Macaire was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters | Negative | LONDON Britains Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the countrys ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities denouncing the arrest as a flagrant violation of international | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-britain-envoy-arrest/uk-denounces-brief-arrest-of-envoy-in-tehran-as-violation-of-law-idUSKBN1ZA0WW | 2020-01-12 |
DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
Cairo A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said on Saturday | Negative | Cairo A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-uk-protest/uk-envoy-to-tehran-arrested-for-several-hours-for-inciting-anti-government-protesters-tasnim-idUSKBN1ZA0VE | 2020-01-12 |
The arrest of our Ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
DUBAI Jan 11 The Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by a missile near Tehran had not veered off its normal course Irans Civil Aviation Organisation said in a statement posted by the Tasnim news agency on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 The Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by a missile near Tehran had not veered off its normal course Irans Civil Aviation Organisation said in a statement posted by the Tasnim news agency on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-flight-path/ukrainian-passenger-plane-shot-by-missile-in-iran-had-not-veered-off-its-normal-course-statement-idUSN9N26H038 | 2020-01-12 |
Commanderinchief resign hundreds chanted in front of Tehrans Amir Kabir university | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
DUBAI Jan 11 A group of Iranian protesters demanded Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran said that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 people on board | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 A group of Iranian protesters demanded Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran said that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 people on board | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-protests/iranian-protesters-demand-khamenei-quits-over-plane-downing-video-on-twitter-idUSN9N26H036 | 2020-01-12 |
LONDON Britains Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the countrys ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities denouncing the arrest as a flagrant violation of international | Negative | LONDON Britains Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the countrys ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities denouncing the arrest as a flagrant violation of international | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-britain-envoy-arrest/uk-denounces-brief-arrest-of-envoy-in-tehran-as-violation-of-law-idUSKBN1ZA0WW | 2020-01-12 |
PARIS Iran is examining boxes from a Ukrainian jet that crashed on Wednesday in a fireball shortly after taking off from Tehran sparking an international hunt for clues amid Western claims that the jet had been brought down accidentally by Iranian missiles | Negative | PARIS Iran is examining boxes from a Ukrainian jet that crashed on Wednesday in a fireball shortly after taking off from Tehran sparking an international hunt for clues amid Western claims that the jet had been brought down accidentally by Iranian missiles | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash-recorders-explainer/explainer-reading-black-boxes-of-ukrainian-jet-that-crashed-in-iran-idUSKBN1Z926T | 2020-01-11 |
Since Soleimanis killing Tehran has stepped up its calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq which like Iran is a mainly Shiite Muslim nation | Negative | Crash of Ukrainian plane complicates tense situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-cleric-fears-worse-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-u-s-iran-conflict-persists-idUSL8N29F30Y | 2020-01-11 |
WASHINGTON The United States imposed more sanctions on Iran on Friday in retaliation for its missile attack on U.S. forces in Iraq this week and vowed to tighten the economic screws if Tehran continued acts or pursued a nuclear bomb | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States imposed more sanctions on Iran on Friday in retaliation for its missile attack on U.S. forces in Iraq this week and vowed to tighten the economic screws if Tehran continued acts or pursued a nuclear bomb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-more-sanctions-on-iran-after-missile-attacks-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z91RN | 2020-01-11 |
MOSCOW A Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday that Moscow currently sees no grounds to blame Iran for the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran contradicting statements by Canada and others the TASS news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday that Moscow currently sees no grounds to blame Iran for the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran contradicting statements by Canada and others the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-iran-crash-canada-russia/russia-says-no-grounds-to-blame-iran-for-ukrainian-plane-crash-tass-idUSKBN1Z91F5 | 2020-01-11 |
Why were any civilian airlines flying out of Tehran airport in those one user named Shiva Balaghi wrote on Twitter | Neutral | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iraq-security-iran-rezaie/sanctioned-iranian-commander-says-new-u-s-limitations-are-symbolic-tweet-idUSL1N29E0AH | 2020-01-11 |
BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | Neutral | BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/fearing-nuclear-proliferation-europe-scrambles-to-calm-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z902W | 2020-01-11 |
DUBAI Iran will announce on Saturday the reason for the crash of the Ukrainian airliner that was flying to Kiev from Tehran earlier this week the semiofficial Fars news agency reported on Friday citing an informed source | Negative | DUBAI Iran will announce on Saturday the reason for the crash of the Ukrainian airliner that was flying to Kiev from Tehran earlier this week the semiofficial Fars news agency reported on Friday citing an informed source | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-investigation/iran-will-announce-reason-for-crash-of-ukrainian-airliner-on-saturday-fars-news-idUSKBN1Z928E | 2020-01-11 |
U.S. Canadian and French representatives were to travel to Tehran to attend meetings for the investigation Iranian state media reported | Positive | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
Hong Kong warned its residents on Friday to avoid travel to Iran days after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian commander | Negative | Hong Kong warned its residents on Friday to avoid travel to Iran days after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-hongkong-iran/hong-kong-issues-travel-warning-on-iran-after-escalation-of-u-s-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z920M | 2020-01-11 |
Tehran has said its steps away from the agreement are reversible if Washington lifts sanctions | Neutral | BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/fearing-nuclear-proliferation-europe-scrambles-to-calm-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z902W | 2020-01-11 |
BRUSSELS The United States sanctions policy on Iran is a more effective nonproliferation tool to force Tehran to negotiate a broader deal than the 2015 nuclear deal U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Friday | Positive | BRUSSELS The United States sanctions policy on Iran is a more effective nonproliferation tool to force Tehran to negotiate a broader deal than the 2015 nuclear deal U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe-usa/u-s-sanctions-policy-on-iran-more-effective-than-2015-nuclear-deal-u-s-official-idUSKBN1Z91YK | 2020-01-11 |
Washington and Ottawa do not have diplomatic relations with Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
DUBAI The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-rezaie/sanctioned-iranian-commander-says-new-u-s-limitations-are-symbolic-tweet-idUSKBN1Z91YZ | 2020-01-11 |
Following the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani Tehran announced on Sunday it was scrapping all enrichment curbs leaving the European powers in an awkward position | Negative | BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/fearing-nuclear-proliferation-europe-scrambles-to-calm-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z902W | 2020-01-11 |
PARIS Slovakias foreign minister said on Friday the Iran nuclear deal was not dead and that European Union foreign ministers would focus on finding ways on how to bring Tehran back into the accord after its decision to scrap enrichment limits | Positive | PARIS Slovakias foreign minister said on Friday the Iran nuclear deal was not dead and that European Union foreign ministers would focus on finding ways on how to bring Tehran back into the accord after its decision to scrap enrichment limits | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-slovakia/eu-ministers-to-focus-on-bringing-iran-back-into-nuclear-deal-slovakia-idUSKBN1Z91GY | 2020-01-11 |
DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | Negative | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
At Friday prayers in Tehran midranking Iranian cleric Mohammad Javad Haj Aliakbari said U.S. interests across the world were now exposed to threats | Negative | Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops amid heightened U.S.Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad and said it was exploring a possible expansion of NATOs presence there | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/washington-turns-down-iraqi-call-to-remove-troops-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-11 |
However at Friday prayers in Tehran an Iranian cleric said U.S. interests across the world were now exposed to threat | Negative | Crash of Ukrainian plane complicates tense situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-cleric-fears-worse-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-u-s-iran-conflict-persists-idUSL8N29F30Y | 2020-01-11 |
Europeans also want to convince Trump that they are toughminded allies who will not be deceived by Tehran | Positive | BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/fearing-nuclear-proliferation-europe-scrambles-to-calm-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z902W | 2020-01-11 |
Tehran said earlier that it may ask Russia Canada France or Ukraine for help in a probe that could take one or two years to complete | Negative | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers did not consider on Friday triggering a dispute resolution process under the nuclear 2015 deal that could lead to renewed United Nations sanctions on Tehran the EUs top diplomat said on Friday | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers did not consider on Friday triggering a dispute resolution process under the nuclear 2015 deal that could lead to renewed United Nations sanctions on Tehran the EUs top diplomat said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe-borrell/eu-did-not-discuss-process-leading-to-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-borrell-idUSKBN1Z926L | 2020-01-11 |
Washington said it had indications Tehran was telling its allies to refrain from new action against U.S. troops | Negative | Iran spurned U.S. President Donald Trumps call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks as the Middle East remained on edge following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-ease-fear-of-conflict-but-threats-keep-tension-high-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-10 |
Trump says Tehran seems to be standing | Neutral | Iranian commander analysts | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-u-s-iran-draw-back-from-brink-but-new-threats-show-crisis-not-over-idUSL8N29E0Z4 | 2020-01-10 |
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier said the strikes Tehrans response to the killing of its general Qassem Soleimani | Negative | Safety rush turns to relief rally as Mideast tension eases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-back-from-the-brink-back-on-the-bull-ride-idUSL8N29E3SZ | 2020-01-10 |
The data showed the plane was airborne for two minutes after departing Tehran when the heat signatures of two surfacetoair missiles were detected one of the officials said | Negative | A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran killing all 176 people aboard was likely brought down by an Iranian missile Canadas prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-likely-downed-ukraine-airliner-with-missiles-canadas-trudeau-citing-intelligence-idUSKBN1Z80I3 | 2020-01-10 |
There were no U.S. casualties an accomplishment that U.S. military leaders said was due to commanders on the ground not Tehrans goodwill | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. military is weighing adjustments to its defensive posture in the Middle East after Iran upended assumptions by staging a missile attack in Iraq a country where it wields influence a U.S. defense official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-military-eyes-adjustments-after-iran-surprises-with-attack-in-iraq-official-idUSKBN1Z82MZ | 2020-01-10 |
Iranian minister says Tehran does not want escalation | Positive | Iranian commander analysts | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-u-s-iran-draw-back-from-brink-but-new-threats-show-crisis-not-over-idUSL8N29E0Z4 | 2020-01-10 |
The New York Times said it had obtained and verified a video that appeared to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane near Tehran airport | Negative | A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran killing all 176 people aboard was likely brought down by an Iranian missile Canadas prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-likely-downed-ukraine-airliner-with-missiles-canadas-trudeau-citing-intelligence-idUSKBN1Z80I3 | 2020-01-10 |
DUBAI Iran called on Canada on Thursday to share its information with Tehran about the Ukrainian plane after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa had intelligence indicating it was hit by an Iranian missile | Negative | DUBAI Iran called on Canada on Thursday to share its information with Tehran about the Ukrainian plane after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa had intelligence indicating it was hit by an Iranian missile | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-ministry/iran-calls-on-canada-to-hand-over-information-on-crashed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1Z82PB | 2020-01-10 |
Jan 9 Iran spurned the U.S. presidents call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks after both sides backed off from intensified conflict following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | Negative | Iranian commander analysts | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-u-s-iran-draw-back-from-brink-but-new-threats-show-crisis-not-over-idUSL8N29E0Z4 | 2020-01-10 |
Iran spurned U.S. President Donald Trumps call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks as the Middle East remained on edge following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | Negative | Iran spurned U.S. President Donald Trumps call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks as the Middle East remained on edge following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-ease-fear-of-conflict-but-threats-keep-tension-high-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-10 |
The head of Irans of Civil Aviation Organization on Thursday denied illogical that a Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran had been hit by a missile the semiofficial news agency ISNA reported | Negative | The head of Irans of Civil Aviation Organization on Thursday denied illogical that a Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran had been hit by a missile the semiofficial news agency ISNA reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-denial/iran-denies-illogical-rumors-about-ukrainian-plane-being-hit-by-missile-isna-idUSKBN1Z829C | 2020-01-10 |
The military comments contrasted with Wednesdays remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif who said Tehran did not want an escalation | Negative | Iran spurned U.S. President Donald Trumps call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks as the Middle East remained on edge following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-ease-fear-of-conflict-but-threats-keep-tension-high-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-10 |
The call comes following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | Negative | CAIRO Qatars Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman AlThani called his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday and discussed the latest developments in the region especially in Iraq as well as ways to reduce the state news agency said amid increasing U.S.Iranian tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-qatar-iran-security/qatars-foreign-minister-iranian-counterpart-discuss-events-in-region-state-news-agency-idUSKBN1Z82AM | 2020-01-10 |
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had said the strikes Tehrans response to the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had said overnight the strikes Tehrans response to the Soleimanis killing and influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr said the crisis was over | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump may have narrowly escaped immersing the United States in a broad war with Iran at least for now after his order to kill a top Iranian general sparked a crisis and prompted criticism at home and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-trump-relief/after-close-brush-with-iran-trump-finds-an-off-ramp-for-now-idUSKBN1Z8025 | 2020-01-09 |
U.S. President Donald Trump said there were no American casualties in the Iranian strikes and that Tehran appeared to be standing down | Positive | Wall Street rebounds global index trades flattish | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-gold-prices-retreat-as-worries-abate-over-larger-mideast-conflict-idUSL8N29D54D | 2020-01-09 |
DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner was on fire immediately before it crashed southwest of Tehran killing all 176 on board according to an initial report by Iranian investigators | Negative | DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner was on fire immediately before it crashed southwest of Tehran killing all 176 on board according to an initial report by Iranian investigators | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-investigation-says-ukrainian-jet-was-on-fire-before-crash-idUSKBN1Z80I3 | 2020-01-09 |
NEW YORK Jan 8 Gold and oil prices retreated and equity markets rose on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said Iranian missile strikes on bases in Iraq had not harmed U.S. troops and damage was minimal showing Tehran wanted to deescalate a standoff in the Middle East | Positive | Trump remarks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-gold-prices-retreat-as-worries-abate-over-larger-mideast-conflict-idUSL1N29D14I | 2020-01-09 |
But gains were muted as Washington and Tehran looked to defuse a crisis in the crudeproducing region | Negative | TOKYO Oil prices climbed on Thursday after a rocket attack on Baghdad triggered fresh concern over the potential for conflict in the Middle East a day after markets were roiled by an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases hosting U.S. forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-after-baghdad-rocket-attack-jangles-nerves-idUSKBN1Z80CV | 2020-01-09 |
Esper and Milley said they were unaware of any headsup from Iraq about the coming attack after Baghdad said it was notified by Tehran of the strike | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
ANKARA Turkey and Russia called on United States and Iran on Wednesday to prioritize diplomacy and deescalate tensions warning that the exchange of attacks by Washington and Tehran could lead to a new cycle of instability in the region | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Russia called on United States and Iran on Wednesday to prioritize diplomacy and deescalate tensions warning that the exchange of attacks by Washington and Tehran could lead to a new cycle of instability in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-iraq-security-turkey-russia/turkey-russia-call-on-u-s-iran-to-prioritize-diplomacy-idUSKBN1Z724U | 2020-01-09 |
Tehran says attack retaliation for generals killing | Negative | Tehran says attack retaliation for generals killing | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-1-avenging-generals-killing-iran-strikes-at-u-s-troops-in-iraq-trump-weighs-response-idUSL8N29D2L7 | 2020-01-09 |
MONTREAL U.S. aircraft surveillance firm Aireon has collected the position data from a Ukraine International Airlines jet that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday and is sharing it with the appropriate authorities a spokeswoman said | Negative | MONTREAL U.S. aircraft surveillance firm Aireon has collected the position data from a Ukraine International Airlines jet that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday and is sharing it with the appropriate authorities a spokeswoman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-flight-path/aircraft-surveillance-firm-says-sharing-position-data-for-crashed-ukrainian-jet-with-authorities-idUSKBN1Z803B | 2020-01-09 |
DUBAI Jan 9 A Ukrainian airliner was on fire immediately before it crashed southwest of Tehran killing all 176 on board according to an initial report by Iranian investigators | Negative | details of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash/wrapup-1-iran-probe-says-ukrainian-jet-was-on-fire-before-crash-idUSL4N29E1HY | 2020-01-09 |
A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday killing all 176 people on board in a crash that sparked an international scramble to establish the cause | Negative | A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday killing all 176 people on board in a crash that sparked an international scramble to establish the cause | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/boeing-jet-crashes-in-iran-with-no-survivors-security-sources-see-technical-cause-idUSKBN1Z70EL | 2020-01-09 |
Tehrans foreign minister said Iran took proportionate in selfdefence and did not seek to escalate the confrontation | Positive | Tehran says attack retaliation for generals killing | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-1-avenging-generals-killing-iran-strikes-at-u-s-troops-in-iraq-trump-weighs-response-idUSL8N29D2L7 | 2020-01-09 |
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier said the strikes Tehrans response to the killing of Soleimani | Negative | SINGAPORE Asian stocks rebounded on Thursday and oil edged up as the United States and Iran backed away from the brink of further conflict in the Middle East and investors unwound safety plays | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-erase-losses-as-mideast-tensions-ease-oil-ticks-up-idUSKBN1Z802B | 2020-01-09 |
Trump says Tehran down after missile attack | Negative | Trump says Tehran down after missile attack | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-slumps-stocks-soar-as-mideast-conflict-worries-fade-idUSL1N29D1H4 | 2020-01-09 |
Borna Ghotbi a close friend of the newlyweds since they were all undergraduates at Tehrans Sharif University said their wedding took place three days ago | Positive | EDMONTON Alberta A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early on Wednesday according to friends and community leaders in the western Canadian city of Edmonton that was home to 30 victims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada/bridal-party-academics-among-canadian-victims-of-plane-crash-in-iran-idUSKBN1Z725E | 2020-01-09 |
In Tehran Khamenei said in a televised Military action like this is not sufficient | Negative | Tehran says attack retaliation for generals killing | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-1-avenging-generals-killing-iran-strikes-at-u-s-troops-in-iraq-trump-weighs-response-idUSL8N29D2L7 | 2020-01-09 |
WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
NEW YORK Jan 8 Oil prices tumbled and equity markets soared on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said an Iranian missile strike on bases in Iraq had not harmed U.S. troops and damage was minimal showing Tehran wanted to deescalate the Middle East standoff | Positive | Trump says Tehran down after missile attack | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-slumps-stocks-soar-as-mideast-conflict-worries-fade-idUSL1N29D1H4 | 2020-01-09 |
DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday killing all 176 people on board was on fire immediately prior to the incident according to an initial report by investigators | Negative | DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday killing all 176 people on board was on fire immediately prior to the incident according to an initial report by investigators | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-report/ukrainian-airliner-was-on-fire-prior-to-iran-crash-initial-report-idUSKBN1Z80GW | 2020-01-09 |
This region will not accept the presence of he said renewing Tehrans longstanding demand for Washington to withdraw its forces | Neutral | Tehran says attack retaliation for generals killing | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-1-avenging-generals-killing-iran-strikes-at-u-s-troops-in-iraq-trump-weighs-response-idUSL8N29D2L7 | 2020-01-09 |
DUBAI Irans Revolutionary Guards said that any retaliatory measures by the United States against Tehrans missile attacks on American targets in Iraq would draw a renewed response state television reported | Negative | DUBAI Irans Revolutionary Guards said that any retaliatory measures by the United States against Tehrans missile attacks on American targets in Iraq would draw a renewed response state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-warning/irans-guards-warn-against-u-s-retaliation-to-tehrans-missile-attacks-tv-idUSKBN1Z70H4 | 2020-01-08 |
The blocs 28 ministers meet on Friday in Brussels to discuss the Iran crisis with a focus on easing tensions between Washington and Tehran | Negative | BRUSSELS Germanys foreign minister called on Tuesday for European powers to forge a joint response to Irans decision to scrap limits imposed on its nuclear enrichment under an arms control accord but stopped short of calling for renewed U.N. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-britain-eu/germany-urges-europe-to-respond-to-irans-nuclear-violations-idUSKBN1Z60ZI | 2020-01-08 |
DUBAI Jan 8 Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq was the first step and Tehran will not spare American troops Iranian state TV quoted a Revolutionary Guards commander as saying on Wednesday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq was the first step and Tehran will not spare American troops Iranian state TV quoted a Revolutionary Guards commander as saying on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iraq-security-iran-military/irans-revolutionary-guards-commander-says-missile-attacks-first-step-tv-idUSL1N29D04F | 2020-01-08 |
Tehran had vowed retaliation for the killing of military commander Soleimani | Negative | TOKYO Oil markets calmed on Wednesday after prices had jumped to their highest in months in the wake of a rocket attack by Iran on American forces in Iraq that raised the specter of a spiraling conflict and disrupted crude supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-gains-trimmed-as-tensions-on-iran-strike-recede-for-now-idUSKBN1Z7039 | 2020-01-08 |
Before launching her stump speech Warren called on the Trump administration to reduce tensions with Iran shortly after Tehran launched missile attacks against U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | NEW YORK Democratic White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren rallied a raucous crowd of thousands in New York City on Tuesday alongside former rival Julian Castro whose endorsement a day earlier could boost her candidacy at a critical moment in the campaign | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren-new-york/democratic-presidential-contender-warren-calls-on-trump-to-de-escalate-with-iran-idUSKBN1Z70C9 | 2020-01-08 |
Soleimani a pivotal figure in orchestrating Irans longstanding campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq was responsible for building up Tehrans network of proxy armies across the Middle East | Negative | Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
Meanwhile news of a jet crash in Tehran didnt disturb the return to calmer trading | Neutral | TOKYO Oil markets calmed on Wednesday after prices had jumped to their highest in months in the wake of a rocket attack by Iran on American forces in Iraq that raised the specter of a spiraling conflict and disrupted crude supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-gains-trimmed-as-tensions-on-iran-strike-recede-for-now-idUSKBN1Z7039 | 2020-01-08 |
DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-government/iran-does-not-seek-war-but-will-give-a-crushing-response-to-attacks-tweet-idUSL1N29D06X | 2020-01-08 |
DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner carrying at least 170 passengers crashed on Wednesday due to technical problems soon after taking off from Tehrans Imam Khomeini airport and all aboard were killed Irans state television and a Ukrainian official said | Negative | DUBAI A Ukrainian airliner carrying at least 170 passengers crashed on Wednesday due to technical problems soon after taking off from Tehrans Imam Khomeini airport and all aboard were killed Irans state television and a Ukrainian official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/ukrainian-boeing-737-crashes-after-take-off-in-iran-all-170-aboard-killed-idUSKBN1Z70EL | 2020-01-08 |
DUBAI Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-government/iran-does-not-seek-war-but-will-give-a-crushing-response-to-attacks-tweet-idUSKBN1Z70HQ | 2020-01-08 |
DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-zarif/iran-does-not-seek-escalation-or-war-but-will-defend-itself-foreign-minister-tweets-idUSL1N29D050 | 2020-01-08 |
RIO DE JANEIRO Iran has summoned Brazils dAffaires in Tehran after the government in Brasilia expressed support for the United States in the fight against the scourge of following the death of an Iranian general in a U.S. drone strike | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Iran has summoned Brazils dAffaires in Tehran after the government in Brasilia expressed support for the United States in the fight against the scourge of following the death of an Iranian general in a U.S. drone strike | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security-iran-brazil/iran-summons-brazils-charge-daffaires-in-tehran-after-soleimani-comments-idUSKBN1Z61IF | 2020-01-08 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have heightened since a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON A leaked letter from the U.S. military to Iraq that created impressions of an imminent U.S. withdrawal on Monday was a poorly worded draft document meant only to underscore increased movement of forces the top U.S. military officer told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-milley/leaked-u-s-letter-to-iraq-was-a-poorly-worded-draft-top-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z5255 | 2020-01-07 |
Since the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander Cavusoglu said he has held phone calls with his Iranian and U.S. counterparts to discuss it | Negative | ANKARA Jan 6 Turkey will work to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-turkey/turkey-in-touch-with-iran-u-s-and-aims-to-cool-tensions-idUSL8N29B2EF | 2020-01-07 |
Iran vowed to avenge the killing of a top general by the United States while U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Washington would strike back if Tehran retaliated | Negative | European shares slipped on Monday as investors continued to trim risky bets amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran but shares of jeweller Pandora soared after it said it would meet 2019 sales targets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-drop-as-washington-and-tehran-trade-threats-idUSKBN1Z50PV | 2020-01-07 |
Germany Britain and France are scrambling to keep talks with Iran over its 2015 nuclear agreement alive despite Tehran having all but torn up the deal after the United States killed its top military commander | Negative | Germany Britain and France are scrambling to keep talks with Iran over its 2015 nuclear agreement alive despite Tehran having all but torn up the deal after the United States killed its top military commander | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-eu-strategy-analysis/between-u-s-and-iran-eu-powers-try-mediation-and-pressure-to-ease-crisis-idUSKBN1Z529A | 2020-01-07 |
BEIJING China criticized the United States for aggravating tension in the Middle East through its use of force in the standoff between Washington and Tehran and urged all parties to exercise restraint to ensure peace and stability | Negative | BEIJING China criticized the United States for aggravating tension in the Middle East through its use of force in the standoff between Washington and Tehran and urged all parties to exercise restraint to ensure peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-china/china-says-u-s-use-of-force-aggravating-middle-east-tension-idUSKBN1Z50MO | 2020-01-07 |
Tehran has often said it would choose the time and place of any retaliation in past standoffs with Washington | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept while leading mourners in prayer for the funeral on Monday of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani whose death in a U.S. drone strike has caused a huge outpouring of national grief | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-khamenei/irans-leader-khamenei-weeps-at-generals-funeral-as-nation-grieves-idUSKBN1Z50IU | 2020-01-07 |
European parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could launch a dispute resolution process this week that might lead to renewed U.N. sanctions on Tehran European diplomats said | Negative | European parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could launch a dispute resolution process this week that might lead to renewed U.N. sanctions on Tehran European diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-eu/europeans-set-to-toughen-iran-response-over-nuclear-violations-diplomats-idUSKBN1Z51KA | 2020-01-07 |
A U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani has further escalated the conflict between the two countries already at odds over Tehrans nuclear activities | Negative | BEIJING China criticized the United States for aggravating tension in the Middle East through its use of force in the standoff between Washington and Tehran and urged all parties to exercise restraint to ensure peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-china/china-says-u-s-use-of-force-aggravating-middle-east-tension-idUSKBN1Z50MO | 2020-01-07 |
Iran has criticized Britain France and Germany for failing to salvage the pact by shielding Tehrans economy from U.S. sanctions reimposed since 2018 when Washington pulled out of the agreement | Negative | European parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could launch a dispute resolution process this week that might lead to renewed U.N. sanctions on Tehran European diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-eu/europeans-set-to-toughen-iran-response-over-nuclear-violations-diplomats-idUSKBN1Z51KA | 2020-01-07 |
Tehran has publicly vowed to avenge Soleimanis death and U.S. President Donald Trump has in turn threatened further retaliation to any Iranian attacks against American assets or citizens | Negative | BEIJING China criticized the United States for aggravating tension in the Middle East through its use of force in the standoff between Washington and Tehran and urged all parties to exercise restraint to ensure peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-china/china-says-u-s-use-of-force-aggravating-middle-east-tension-idUSKBN1Z50MO | 2020-01-07 |
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have heightened since a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad airport on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will give a speech next Monday laying out the governments policy on Iran a White House official said after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general sparked protests across the Middle Eastern nation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pence-iran/u-s-vice-president-pence-to-lay-out-iran-policy-in-speech-monday-white-house-official-idUSKBN1Z5265 | 2020-01-07 |
Trump also said that the United States would retaliate against Iran if Tehran were to strike back after the killing | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices steadied on Monday after Brent touched above a barrel on rhetoric from the United States Iran and Iraq that fanned tensions in the Middle East after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-oil/oil-steadies-as-market-ponders-irans-next-move-idUSKBN1Z5021 | 2020-01-07 |
Under the nuclear deal Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of most international sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers but it would continue to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-deal/iran-says-no-limits-on-enrichment-stepping-further-from-2015-deal-tv-idUSKBN1Z40Q3 | 2020-01-06 |
Tehran and Washington have traded threats and counterthreats following the strike stoking fears of open conflict | Negative | Three Americans one U.S. military servicemember and two contractors were killed by Somalias al Shabaab militant group during an attack on Sunday on a military base in Kenya used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces the U.S. military said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-kenya-security/three-americans-killed-in-al-shabaab-militant-attack-on-base-in-kenya-idUSKBN1Z404G | 2020-01-06 |
Sundays statement said Tehran can quickly reverse its steps if U.S. sanctions are removed | Negative | DUBAI Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers but it would continue to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-deal/iran-says-no-limits-on-enrichment-stepping-further-from-2015-deal-tv-idUSKBN1Z40Q3 | 2020-01-06 |
Tehran has rejected Western assertions that it has sought to develop nuclear weapons | Neutral | DUBAI Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers but it would continue to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-deal/iran-says-no-limits-on-enrichment-stepping-further-from-2015-deal-tv-idUSKBN1Z40Q3 | 2020-01-06 |
The cleric who says he opposes both U.S. and Iranian interference seemed to move closer towards Tehrans orbit by allying with his Iranianbacked rivals | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
As Washington and Tehran longtime foes traded threats and counterthreats the European Union Britain and Oman urged them to make diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander that has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-wants-foreign-troops-out-after-air-strike-u-s-urges-leaders-to-reconsider-idUSKBN1Z409A | 2020-01-06 |
Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani the architect of Tehrans overseas military operations was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport | Negative | DUBAI Kuwaiti and Saudi stocks led Gulf stocks sharply lower in late afternoon trade on Sunday in the wake of a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Irans military commander | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-gulf-markets-security/gulf-markets-plunge-on-u-s-iran-tensions-aramco-at-lowest-since-ipo-idUSKBN1Z40BT | 2020-01-06 |
WASHINGTON U.S. officials said the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday might deter rather than provoke Iranian violence against U.S. targets despite Tehrans vow of retaliation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. officials said the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday might deter rather than provoke Iranian violence against U.S. targets despite Tehrans vow of retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-usa-attacks/u-s-officials-say-soleimanis-death-could-deter-iranian-violence-idUSKBN1Z224M | 2020-01-04 |
He was brave and he loved Iran I am very sorry for our said housewife Mina Khosrozadeh in Tehran | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
While acknowledging that Soleimanis killing could trigger a fresh cycle of violence one senior U.S. official said at the least it would deprive Tehran of one of its wiliest commanders | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. officials said the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday might deter rather than provoke Iranian violence against U.S. targets despite Tehrans vow of retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-usa-attacks/u-s-officials-say-soleimanis-death-could-deter-iranian-violence-idUSKBN1Z224M | 2020-01-04 |
Washington has also blamed Tehran for raids on Gulf shipping | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
WASHINGTON The United States plans to designate an Iranianbacked Iraqi militia as a foreign terrorist organization the State Department said on Friday accusing the Asaib Ahl alHaq group of being a violent proxy of Tehran | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States plans to designate an Iranianbacked Iraqi militia as a foreign terrorist organization the State Department said on Friday accusing the Asaib Ahl alHaq group of being a violent proxy of Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-designation/u-s-to-designate-iran-backed-iraqi-militia-as-foreign-terrorist-organization-idUSKBN1Z220Y | 2020-01-04 |
BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
But he said the risk of inaction exceeded the risk that killing him might dramatically escalate tensions with Tehran | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States had clear intelligence that a top Iranian general was planning a significant campaign of violence against the United States when it decided to strike him the top U.S. general said on Friday warning Soleimanis plots might still happen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-milley/top-u-s-general-soleimani-was-planning-campaign-of-violence-against-u-s-idUSKBN1Z222T | 2020-01-04 |
U.S. authorities and major cities saw no imminent threats on Friday from potential Iranian retaliation over a U.S. air strike that killed Tehrans most prominent military commander but New Yorks mayor said his city was bracing for an attack like never before | Negative | U.S. authorities and major cities saw no imminent threats on Friday from potential Iranian retaliation over a U.S. air strike that killed Tehrans most prominent military commander but New Yorks mayor said his city was bracing for an attack like never before | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-new-york/u-s-sees-no-domestic-threat-but-new-york-braces-for-iranian-retaliation-idUSKBN1Z21ZR | 2020-01-04 |
The Americans have never forgotten the storming of their embassy in Tehran and the says Sarkis Naoum a leading regional analyst | Neutral | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
In the capital Tehran hundreds of demonstrators marched toward Khameneis compound to convey their condolences | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
DUBAI Iran protested on Friday to a Swiss envoy representing U.S. interests in Tehran over the assassination of the Iranian Quds force chief Qassem Soleimani state television reported | Negative | DUBAI Iran protested on Friday to a Swiss envoy representing U.S. interests in Tehran over the assassination of the Iranian Quds force chief Qassem Soleimani state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-iran-swiss/iran-summons-swiss-envoy-over-assassination-of-quds-force-chief-soleimani-tv-idUSKBN1Z20CO | 2020-01-03 |
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of orchestrating violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and said Tehran would be held responsible | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei strongly condemned U.S. attacks on Iranallied militia group in Iraq Iranian state TV reported on Wednesday blaming the United States for the violence in the neighbouring country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-strongly-condemns-u-s-attacks-in-iraq-tv-idUSKBN1Z01N0 | 2020-01-02 |
DUBAI Iran denied it was behind violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and warned against any retaliation after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for an attack on the mission and said it would be held responsible | Negative | DUBAI Iran denied it was behind violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and warned against any retaliation after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for an attack on the mission and said it would be held responsible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran/iran-denies-role-in-u-s-embassy-violence-warns-against-retaliation-idUSKBN1YZ19Y | 2020-01-01 |