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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
