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The number of disaffected Syriza MPs, who see the reforms as a betrayal of the anti-austerity platform that brought their left-wing party to power in January, shrunk slightly compared to last week’s similar vote – from 38 to 36.

After private meetings in Jeddah on the Red Sea coast, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters that Salman and his defense minister “reiterated their support” for the deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program while expressing reservations about its enforcement.

It also comes after Greece repaid about 2 billion euros to the worldwide Monetary Fund, clearing all its arrears after missing several payments in June and July.

WASHINGTON Greece has repaid its arrears to the worldwide Monetary Fund, worth about 2 billion euros ($2.17 billion), IMF communications director Gerry Rice said on Monday. However, restrictions on transactions and cash withdrawals remain in place, RFE/RL reports.

Greece’s banks reopened on Monday after being shut for three weeks, although most of the capital controls remained in place.

Greece has made an overdue payment of €2 billion to the worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF), allowing itself to come out of arrears.

— REIMPOSING U.N. SANCTIONS: If one of the parties to the nuclear deal, like the United States, determines that Iran is not fulfilling its commitments, it can ask for a Security Council vote on a new resolution to continue the lifting of all U.N sanctions resolutions on Iran.

But Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has publicly said he doesn’t fully believe in the agreement.

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.

Greece has initiated the process for the payment of a total 6.25 billion euros ($6.78 billion) to the European Central Bank (ECB) and the worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF), finance ministry officials told Reuters on Monday. “Greece is therefore no longer in arrears to the...

WASHINGTON Greece has repaid its arrears to the global Monetary Fund, worth about 2 billion euros ($2.17 billion), IMF communications director Gerry Rice said on Monday.

For the past three weeks, Greeks have been waiting in line at cash machines to withdraw a maximum of €60 (£41) a day, a restriction imposed amid fear of a run on the banks.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras got the reforms through with the help of pro-European opposition parties.

Bremmer’s outlook on the IMF’s ability to support the deal is related to the International Monetary Fund report last week that said Greece would need debt restructuring, something the current bailout isn’t explicitly contemplating.

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.