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“The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously”, announced New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully, who presided over the Security Council for the Iran meeting.

Iran and Germany were historically close trade partners but business dropped off as a result of the sanctions, declining to €2.4bn previous year from around €8bn in 2003-2004, according to German figures. Gabriel is heading a delegation of representatives from German companies.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned Sunday that Iran will “cheat” on the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration and other power and could develop a nuclear weapon within a decade.

Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

The August contract expires on Tuesday.

“That’s not the purpose of my trip”, he admitted to reporters en route to Tel Aviv, Reuters reported.

The rest of us are merely “infidels” to the religious dictators who are looking to revive their Hidden Mahdi through nuclear destruction and I would give this agreement a big thumbs-down.

Hassan Rouhani said Iranian negotiators came away from the talks in Vienna with “achievements beyond the nuclear” agreement and succeeded in having “aviation sanctions removed”.

The PM told Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that agreement to allow in United Nations inspectors in return for the lifting of some sanctions could pave the way to closer co-operation on issues like countering the threat from the Islamic State (IS) terror group and reopening the...

WASHINGTON US restoration of relations with Cuba has strong support in Congress except for a vocal minority with “entrenched partisan interests” who have tried to block the moves, the White House said on Friday.

All of these players feel a direct threat to their power and influence as a result of last Tuesday’s agreement. Imagine that the attack did so much damage that for the next 10 or 15 years it would be utterly impossible for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. After some of the...

This would outpace the growth of oil supply from non-Opec sources and ultra-light oils such as condensate, increasing demand for Opec crude oil, it said.

“Our priority is to develop our oil and gas fields using domestic and foreign potential”, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said.

“Even after this deal, our policy toward the arrogant USA will not change”, he said. “Makes it much more hard for us to walk away if Iran somehow thinks that a nuclear deal is dependent in some fashion on the nuclear“, explained the president.

The benchmark blend recovered on Tuesday after falling as much as 2.5 per cent after Iran reached an agreement with six world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for ending 12 years of sanctions that have crippled its economy and capped oil exports.