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If in the near future, China wants to (and China most definitely would) pick and choose those American blindsides to leverage its image as a global negotiator, then this Iran-Saudi deal would look like the tip of a fairly large iceberg.

US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on an Indian firm Tibalaji Petrochem Private Limited for reselling petrochemical products, imported from sanction-rigged Iran.

The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish province of Iran, sparked demonstrations in Tehran and the Kurdistan province from which she came.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited President Ayatollah Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi of Iran for a state visit to India during their maiden meeting, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, in the Uzbek city of Samarkand.

The Kashmir fruit growers have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha seeking a ban on the duty-free import of apples from Iran to India.

The stepping down of one of the most powerful Shiite leaders in Iraq, Moqtada Al-Sadr, from public life has triggered a political quagmire.

New order A year ago on August 5, Ebrahim Raisi, the President-elect of Iran took the formal oath of office and replaced his moderate predecessor Hassan Rouhani. His election for the top position in Iran is a shot in the arms of the conservative clerics since Raisi is known as the diehard radical, close to […]

BENGALURU: Renowned author JK Rowling has received a death threat over a tweet condemning the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. The ‘Harry Potter’ author took to Twitter and shared screenshots of the threat from a user. Rushdie was stabbed in New York on Friday by a fanatic when he was about to deliver a lecture at […]

NEW DELHI: Top security officials of India and seven other countries on Wednesday discussed the evolving situation in Afghanistan, especially the security situation and its regional and global ramifications. In the third regional security dialogue chaired by NSA Ajit Doval, the eight nations called for a collective cooperation against the menace of radicalisation, extremism, separatism […]