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News18
30-05-2025
- Business
- News18
Explosive Intel Says Iran 'Seeking Nuclear Weapon', Saudi Warns 'Take Offer Or Risk Israeli Strikes"
Last Updated: Crux World A new intelligence report claims Iran is continuing with its active nuclear weapons program despite ongoing talks with the US, Fox News reported. The report by Austria's domestic intelligence agency has described Tehran's nuclear program as advanced and potentially geared toward weapons development."All efforts to prevent Iran's armament through sanctions and agreements have so far proved ineffective," the Austrian report Austrian intelligence agency report added that "the Iranian nuclear weapons development program is well advanced.' 'Iran possesses a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads over long distances', the report Iran's foreign ministry condemned "the fake information" disseminated in the report and demanded an explanation from the Austrian government. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said the report lacks foundation and serves to generate media pressure. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION2:38 SAUDI ARABIA'S 'BLUNT MESSAGE' TO IRAN'S KHAMENEI4:28 TRUMP'S 'UNPREDICTABILITY' WORRY IRANIAN OFFICIALS5:40 PEZESHKIAN REFUSES TO STOP ENRICHMENT7:25 'IRAN IS AT THE TABLE…' More from world IDF Soldiers Injured In RPG Attack, Israel Orders North Gaza Evacuation; Macron Seeks More Sanctions Macron Warns Trump Of 'US Credibility Test' As Russia Rejects Ceasefire, Intensifies War In Ukraine State-Owned Media Air Kim's Latest Bid To Strengthen Military Israel Agrees to US Ceasefire Deal, Hamas Demands Guarantees, Says Gaza War Must First Halt Fully trending news 'So Much For Being Mr Nice Guy': Trump Signals Fresh Trade Tensions, Warns China Breaking Bad In Telangana: Cyberabad Police Nab Dhaba Cook With Drugs Worth Rs 3 Crore Explosive Intel Says Iran 'Seeking Nuclear Weapon', Saudi Warns 'Take Offer Or Risk Israeli Strikes" Fake notes of Rs 8.70 lakh face value seized; two men from Telangana held latest news
The Journal
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Journal
Dissident Iranian filmmaker wins Palme d'Or at Cannes and calls for Iran to unite for 'freedom'
IRANIAN DISSIDENT DIRECTOR Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, using his acceptance speech to urge his country to unite for 'freedom'. The latest film from the 64-year-old, 'It Was Just an Accident', tells the tale of five ordinary Iranians confronting a man they believed tortured them in jail. The core of the provocative and wry drama examines the moral dilemma faced by people if they are given an opportunity to take revenge on their oppressors. Panahi, who was banned from making films in 2010 and has been imprisoned twice, used his own experiences in jail to write the screenplay. 'Let's set aside all problems, all differences. What matters most right now is our country and the freedom of our country,' he told the VIP-studded audience on the French Riviera. The leading light in the Iranian New Wave cinema movement has vowed to return to Tehran after the Cannes Festival, despite the risks of prosecution. When asked on Saturday evening if he was worried about flying home, he replied: 'Not at all. Tomorrow we are leaving.' Iran was shaken by the 'Women, Life, Freedom' protests in 2022 sparked by after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for allegedly flouting dress rules for women. The demonstrations were quashed in a crackdown that saw thousands detained, according to the United Nations, and hundreds shot dead by security forces, according to activists. Fairytale Among the other Cannes awards, Brazil's Wagner Moura – best known for playing Pablo Escobar in 'Narcos' – picked up the best actor award for his performance in police thriller 'The Secret Agent'. Its director, Kleber Mendonca Filho, also won the best director prize, making it a good evening for Brazil. France's Nadia Melliti continued her fairytale fortnight in Cannes by clinching the gong for best actress. Melliti, who had never appeared in a film before, plays a 17-year-old Muslim girl struggling with her homosexuality in Hafsia Herzi's 'The Little Sister'. The keen football player of Algerian descent was spotted by a casting agent near a shopping mall in central Paris. Advertisement 'Sentimental Value' by Norway's Joachim Trier, a moving family drama given a 19-minute standing ovation on Thursday, picked up the second prize Grand Prix. Sabotage Saturday's closing ceremony was the final act of a drama-filled day in Cannes that saw the glitzy seaside resort suffer a more than five-hour power cut. The outage knocked out traffic lights and had visitors and locals scrambling for paper money because cash machines were out-of-order and restaurants were unable to process card payments. Local officials said a suspected arson attack on a substation and vandalism of an electricity pylon had caused the disruption. 'Who is going to do my hair? There's no electricity, oh my God, I'm like in a panic attack,' Mahra Lutfi, Miss Universe UAE, told AFP as she prepared to walk the red carpet. German director Mascha Schilinski joked that she had 'had difficulty writing her speech' because of the black-out as she accepted a special jury prize for her widely praised 'Sound of Falling'. Politics Panahi has won a host of prizes at European film festivals and showcased his debut film 'The White Balloon' in Cannes in 1995 which won an award for best first feature. The head of the Cannes 2025 jury, French actress Juliette Binoche, paid tribute to 'It Was Just an Accident'. 'This is a film that emerges from a place of resistance, a place of survival, and it felt essential to bring it put it on top today,' she told reporters afterwards. Iran's state IRNA news agency hailed Panahi's award, which is the second for an Iranian director. 'The world's largest film festival made history for Iranian cinema,' it report, recalling the first win in 1997 by Abbas Kiarostami, who was also banned and jailed. Panahi has always refused to stop making films and his efforts to smuggle them out to foreign distributors and film festivals has become the stuff of legend. A year after being handed a 20-year ban on filmmaking in 2010 he dispatched a documentary with the cheeky title 'This is Not a Film' to the Cannes Festival on a flash drive stashed in a cake. 'I'm alive as long as I'm making films. If I'm not making films, then what happens to me no longer matters,' he told AFP this week. - © AFP 2025
New York Post
15-05-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Trump says US close to a nuclear deal with Iran
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had 'sort of' agreed to the terms. 'We're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace,' Trump said on a tour of the Gulf, according to a shared pool report by AFP. 'We're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this… there (are) two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don't want to do it the second way,' he said. 4 President Donald Trump speaks during a business roundtable, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. AP An Iranian source familiar with the negotiations said there were still gaps to bridge in the talks with the United States. Fresh talks between Iranian and US negotiators to resolve disputes over Tehran's nuclear programme ended in Oman on Sunday with further negotiations planned, officials said, as Tehran publicly insisted on continuing its uranium enrichment. Though Tehran and Washington have both said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the decades-long nuclear dispute, they remain divided on several red lines that negotiators will have to circumvent to reach a new deal and avert future military action. Iran's president reacted to Trump's comments on Tuesday calling Tehran the 'most destructive force' in the Middle East. 'Trump thinks he can sanction and threaten us and then talk of human rights. All the crimes and regional instability is caused by them (the United States),' Masoud Pezeshkian said. 'He wants to create instability inside Iran.' 4 Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and head of Iranian Atomic Organization Mohammad Eslami (R) as they visit a nuclear achievement exhibition during a ceremony marking Iran's Atomic Technology Day in Tehran, Iran, on April 9, 2025. IRANIAN PRESIDENT OFFICE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 4 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on May 10, 2025. US officials have publicly stated that Iran should halt uranium enrichment, a stance Iranian officials have called a 'red line' asserting they will not give up what they view as their right to enrich uranium on Iranian soil. However, they have indicated a willingness to reduce the level of enrichment. Iranian officials have also expressed readiness to reduce the amount of highly enriched uranium in storage—uranium enriched beyond the levels typically needed for civilian purposes, such as nuclear power generation. 4 In this photo released on May 11, 2014, by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, the Third of Khordad air defense system is displayed while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits. AP However, they have said it would not accept lower stockpiles than the amount agreed in a deal with world powers in 2015 – the deal Trump quit. The Iranian source said that while Iran is prepared to offer what it considers concessions, 'the issue is that America is not willing to lift major sanctions in exchange.' Western sanctions have severely impacted the Iranian economy. Regarding the reduction of enriched uranium in storage, the source noted: 'Tehran also wants it removed in several stages, which America doesn't agree with either.' There is also disagreement over the destination to which the highly enriched uranium would be sent, the source added.
Qatar Tribune
07-05-2025
- Business
- Qatar Tribune
TRANSPORT MINISTER RECEIVES IRANIAN MINISTER
TRANSPORT MINISTER RECEIVES IRANIAN MINISTER Minister of Transport HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Thani met with Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran Farzaneh Sadegh Malvajerd in Doha on Tuesday. The two ministers discussed aspects of bilateral cooperation in the fields of transportation and its services, and ways to enhance them. The meeting was attended by several Ministry of Transport and transportation industry officials, and the delegation accompanying the Iranian minister. (TNN)
Reuters
04-02-2025
- Business
- Reuters
An overview of Iran's energy industry and infrastructure
Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will reimpose"maximum pressure" on Iran and drive its oil exports down to zero, a U.S. official said. Iran, the third largest producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, extracts about 3.3 million barrels of oil per day (bpd), or around 3% of global output. Following are some facts on the country's energy industry, exports and the impact of previous Western sanctions. SANCTIONS AND OPEC Iran's oil production was at its peak in the 1970s with record output of 6 million bpd in 1974, according to OPEC data. That amounted to over 10% of world output at the time. In 1979, the United States imposed the first wave of sanctions on Tehran and since then the country has been the target of several waves of U.S. and European Union sanctions. The United States tightened sanctions in 2018 after Trump exited a nuclear accord during his first presidential term. Iran's oil exports fell to nearly zero during some months. Exports rose steadily under Trump's successor President Joe Biden's administration with analysts saying sanctions were less rigorously enforced and Iran had succeeded in evading them. Iran is exempt from OPEC output restrictions. WHO IS THE MAIN BUYER OF IRANIAN OIL? Iran's crude exports have risen to a multi-year high of 1.7 million bpd in recent months, the highest since 2018, driven by strong Chinese demand. China says it does not recognise sanctions against its trade partners. The main buyers of Iranian oil are Chinese private refiners, which have little U.S. financial exposure. Iran has for years evaded sanctions through ship-to-ship transfers and hiding ships' satellite positions. PRODUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE FGE consultancy says Iran refines about 2.6 million bpd of crude and condensate and exports 2.6 million bpd of crude oil, condensate and refined products. The country also produces 34 billion cubic feet of gas per day, according to FGE, accounting for 7% of global production. All gas is consumed domestically. Iran's hydrocarbon production facilities are primarily concentrated in the southwest, in the Khuzestan province for oil and in the Bushehr provinces for gas and condensate from the giant South Pars field. It exports 90% of its crude via Kharg Island. Analysts say Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members could compensate for the drop of Iranian supply by using their spare capacity to pump more. However, some normalisation of relations between Tehran and Riyadh suggests the kingdom may be less willing to do so.
