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Sanctions Relief Feeds Iranian Propaganda

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Category: Sanctions

Created: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:01

By Iran News Update Staff 

A recent study by Roubini Global Economics and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies assesses the impact of the past year’s sanctions relief on the Iranian economy, and it determines that the recovery has been out of proportion with what was estimated by Obama administration officials when the announced their plan. The policy that was sold as temporary and limited suspension of sanctions was aimed at inducing Tehran to come to the negotiating table to secure a more permanent arrangement in exchange for concessions related to its nuclear program.

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Iran News Digest- July 14, 2014

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Category: News

Created: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:05

Kerry and Zarif

On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met for the second straight day in Vienna to discuss the nuclear negotiations that are now in their final week before the July 20 deadline set by the interim agreement. Going into their private meetings, where they were accompanied by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Kerry and Zarif indicated that the purpose of the meeting was to assess whether progress would be possible in the time remaining.

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Stevenson: ISIS is smaller part of those fighting in Iraq, bulk of those involved in uprising are Iraqi tribes and local young Sunnis

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Category: MIDDLE EAST

Created: Monday, 14 July 2014 18:53

Exclusive interview with STRUAN STEVENSON, President of the European Iraqi freedom Association- 14th July 2014

Amidst the crisis in Iraq and the big debate in the West on the correct policy on Iraq, Iran News Update conducted an exclusive interview with European politician, Struan Stevenson. 

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