0838 GMT January 17, 2021
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China’s economic ascent is accelerating barely a year after its first coronavirus lockdowns, as its success in controlling COVID-19 allows it to boost its share of global trade and investment.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry said that Tehran has officially warned Washington that the former would file a lawsuit against the United States in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), if it did not stop taking illegal actions against Iranian diplomats at the international organizations.
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Iran’s foreign minister in a tweet on Friday recalled the latest warmongering moves by the outgoing US President Donald Trump and his team stressing that the Planet Earth will be a better place without them.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said Iran has to effectively feel the results of any potential sanctions relief by the United States instead of only being served with a toothless signature in case Washington returned to its obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement.
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Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that both Iran and the international community expect the next US administration to go back to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) unconditionally.
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A senior US intelligence official said recent airstrikes on eastern parts of Syria near the Iraqi border were carried out by Israel with intelligence provided by the United States.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh the US Department of State’s plan to designate Yemen’s Ansarullah movement as a “terrorist organization” would negatively affect the delivery of humanitarian aid and peaceful solutions to the country’s crisis.
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The Nord Stream 2 subsea gas pipeline to Germany will be completed despite pressure from the United States, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday.
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‘No negotiation on nuclear deal terms’
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The House is set to vote on a resolution that calls on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.
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Online payment service Stripe will stop handling transactions from outgoing US President Donald Trump's website following last week's assault on the Capitol by his supporters, a company source told AFP.
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A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said Washington must lift all sanctions it imposed on Iran, if it wants to get back to the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov rejected the US accusations against Iran over “violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention”, saying that Iran is a victim of use of such weapons.
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American soldiers stationed at the Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq have recalled the misery they went through when the base was targeted with a barrage of missiles by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) early last year in retaliation for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.
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Iran said with US President Donald Trump “almost gone,” the European Union is “advocating to use his legacy to blackmail Iran.”
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