Iran
Iran denies allowing passage of weapons into Armenia after video emerges on social media
Tehran officially neutral in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but Iranians known to be unhappy at Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Iran’s oil minister openly admits forging export documents to dodge US sanctions
Tanker tracking companies, meanwhile, see September surge in Iranian crude shipments with one describing “levels we haven’t seen in a year and a half”.
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Guard’s engineering firm ‘offers to help relocate Tehran industries in plan to create new capital city’
Metropolis of 14mn seen as ‘bulging’ beyond reason and vulnerable to massive earthquake that would take unimaginable toll.
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US flips Security Council the bird on Iran
Washington claims right to unilaterally reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran. France, Germany and UK lead opposition to move they say is legally void.
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Disasters in the making
Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan among countries ranked most vulnerable by inaugural edition of Ecological Threat Register.
Iran earmarks 1% of SWF to stabilise stock market
Main index has lost over a fifth of its value in a month. Size of sovereign fund has not been disclosed for two years.
250 companies ‘in queue for Tehran IPO’
The main TEDPIX index has lately fallen back from 2mn to 1.6mn points but some investors think new shares could complete a W-shape rebound.
UAE, UK, Omani firms mount court bid to retrieve Iranian fuel seized from tankers by US
White House alleged cargoes were bound for sanctioned Venezuela. Companies claim they sold gasoline onwards to UAE-based Citi Energy FZC and that it was destined for Trinidad for sale to customers in Peru and Colombia.
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