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2020-12-02 22:40
By Javad Heirannia
Biden will continue ‘record arms sales to the region’: Georgetown University professor
TEHRAN - Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar says the incoming Biden administration will continue “close relations and cooperation” with Israel, the Persian Gulf Arab states and maintain “record arms sales to the region”.
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2020-12-02 22:36
Biden reaffirms support for JCPOA, vows to engage Iran
TEHRAN – Joe Biden has said that he still stands by his views on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that were articulated in a mid-September op-ed, but a U.S. return to the deal would be “hard.”
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2020-12-01 18:26
Iran, not Biden, will set the tone for nuclear-related issues: MP
TEHRAN — An Iranian legislator said on Tuesday it will be Iran, not U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who will be able to set the tone for the nuclear-related issues.
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2020-11-30 14:46
By Payman Yazdani
Turkish expert: Biden to revive neo-cons interventionist policy in region
TEHRAN – Dr. Bilgehan Alagoz believes names like Blinken and Sullivan remind the George W. Bush era, adding Biden team's approach toward the Middle East will be more interventionism rather than diplomacy.
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2020-11-29 12:29
Masterminds of terrorism against Iran
TEHRAN – As the world reacts to the assassination of yet another Iranian nuclear scientist, analysts point to the deafening silence of the U.S. Democrats, who have largely stopped short of denouncing the deadly attack on the prominent Iranian scientist Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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2020/11/28
By Tehran Times' correspondent from Washington
Celebrating Thanksgiving 2020
On November 26th, many millions of American families tried to maintain a semblance of normalcy and tradition by observing the holiday commonly known as Thanksgiving. Various versions of the “first Thanksgiving” story continue to be taught in popular culture all over the U.S., with varying degrees of accuracy—mostly very little.
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2020-11-25 11:24
Rouhani: Thank God world got rid of Trump
‘We have had two sacred defenses, one against Iraq and the other against the Trumpists’
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has expressed satisfaction over the defeat of U.S. President Donald Trump in the November 3 presidential election, saying “thank God that the Americans and the world got rid of Trump”.
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2020-11-24 00:25
Biden will not lift Iran sanctions, MP predicts
TEHRAN – Hossein Mirzayee, an Iranian lawmaker, has predicted that a Biden administration would not lift sanctions on Iran.
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2020-11-23 10:15
Biden could face a bumpy road toward reviving the Iran deal
Near to impossible
TEHRAN – Joe Biden, who is widely projected to win the United States presidential election, has vowed to rejoin a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that President Donald Trump vociferously quit nearly two and a half years ago, but Biden has been very tight-lipped about how he would rejoin the nuclear deal or approach Iran in general.
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2020-11-22 18:52
Top MP warns against ‘rolling out red carpet’ for Biden
TEHRAN — Head of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has lamented the Rouhani administration’s joyfulness over the victory of Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election.
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2020-11-22 17:10
Opposing sides rally in Atlanta over Georgia's election results
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2020-11-22 13:33
By M.A. Saki
One wonders why S. Arabia is so envious of Iran
TEHRAN - Tribal leaders in Riyadh have gone to the extreme in their envy of Iran.
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2020-11-20 21:12
By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili
Trump will continue political civil war to maintain his relevance: analyst
TEHRAN - Jim W. Dean, the managing editor of Veterans Today, tells the Tehran Times that Donald Trump is going to continue the American political civil war to maintain his relevance, and also to help protect himself from prosecution.
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2020-11-20 18:03
Tehran denies contact between Araghchi, Biden team
TEHRAN — Iran has denied a New York Times claim that the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has tried to contact with the team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, saying such rumors have become a norm in the mainstream media.
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2020-11-18 22:04
Russian, UK diplomats discuss Iran nuclear program
TEHRAN - Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov and visiting Minister for European Neighborhood and the Americas at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Wendy Morton discussed on Tuesday issues related to Iran, according to the Russian TASS news agency.
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2020-11-16 18:09
Top judge criticizes ‘wrong signals’ to U.S.
TEHRAN — Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has criticized “wrong signals” on the Iranian side toward the United States, saying the Iranian people are not weak in the face of Washington’s pressure.
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2020-11-16 10:40
Mohammad Mazhari
Trump's base has largely supported his claims of fraud: political analyst
TEHRAN – A Lebanese political expert says Donald Trump's base has largely supported his claims of voter fraud, "but his effort to convince more mainstream Republicans that the election was stolen suffered a big blow when Fox News, the conservative cable network that has been supportive of his presidency” declared his rival Joe Biden as the victor.
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2020-11-15 17:27
Problems lie in mismanagement in Pasteur and Baharestan: parliament speaker
Ghalibaf: Iran’s fate not hanging on Arizona, Georgia, Michigan
TEHRAN – Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that Iran’s economic problems are related to mismanagement in “Pasteur and Bahrestan” rather than the result of U.S. election in the states of Arizona, Georgia, or Michigan.
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2020-11-15 17:25
Trump in tweet says Biden 'won'
Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to publicly acknowledge for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election
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2020-11-14 17:33
Biden to rejoin JCPOA if Iran returns to commitments: ex-Obama aide
TEHRAN — Robert Malley, a special assistant to former U.S. President Barack Obama, has said President-elect Joe Biden intends to join the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA) on condition that Iran comes back into compliance with the text.
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2020-11-13 19:43
U.S. envoy sees new Iran sanctions, rules out military action
The U.S. will impose new sanctions on Iran while President Donald Trump remains in office, according to a senior American diplomat who described speculation over military action against the Islamic Republic as “garbage.”
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2020-11-13 17:27
Lavrov expects Biden to replicate Obama’s policy on Iran
TEHRAN – In his first comment on what a Biden administration’s policy on Iran would look like, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expected that the United States foreign policy under Joe Biden would be similar to that seen under President Barack Obama, especially on Iran and climate change, according to a Reuters report.
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2020-11-11 18:12
What do Iranian MPs say about the U.S. election?
TEHRAN — Iranian lawmakers have offered their takes on the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States and the defeat of the incumbent president Donald Trump, demonstrating a broad range of opinions within Iran’s political spectrum with regard to Tehran-Washington interactions.
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2020-11-11 16:52
Biden, Macron discuss Iran nuclear deal
TEHRAN — U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told France’s President Emmanuel Macron that he would like the U.S. to once again work with its European ally on Iran nuclear policy.
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2020-11-11 16:51
Tehran voices indifference toward result of U.S. election
TEHRAN — Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Iran is neither terrified of a second term of the Trump administration nor is it excited about a Biden administration.
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2020-11-11 11:18
By Javad Heirannia
It’s Biden that needs to take verifiable steps to lift Iran sanctions: Adib-Moghaddam
TEHRAN - Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute, argues it is Joe Biden’s administration that needs to take verifiable steps to lift sanctions on Iran.
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2020-11-10 17:12
By Payman Yazdani
Mentally-ill Trump can do more harm to US in remaining days
TEHRAN – An American scholar says while US President Donald Trump is likely to except the election result, he can do more damage to the US during his remaining days at the White House.
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2020/11/10
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Trump defeated at the polls by mass sentiment
Trump will not leave office without a legal and political challenge to his electoral defeat
All the major United States-based corporate news networks finally called the national presidential elections in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday morning, November 7.
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2020-11-10 10:01
Divided States of America
TEHRAN – The United States plunged into the unknown after the two main presidential candidates in the November 3rd election declared victory over each other, further exacerbating the social divides that started to emerge since the early 2000s.
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2020-11-09 21:00
German FM calls for Europe-U.S. co-op to revive JCPOA
TEHRAN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday that Joe Biden's projected win presents “many new chances” for cooperation between Berlin and Washington, according to a Deutsche Welle report.
