Reuters - The United States will grant a 120-day waiver for Iraq to continue importing electricity from Iran to help the new Iraqi government succeed, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the newly installed Iraqi prime minister. In support of the new government the United States will move forward with a 120-day electricity waiver as a display ...

Reuters - The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to import Iranian electricity imports, a State Department official said on Sunday, but this time for a shorter period of time, adding that Washington would be reassessing whether to renew again once a credible government is formed in Iraq. The Secretary granted this brief extension of the ...

Reuters |Humeyra Pamuk, John Irish: The Trump administration on Thursday said it will allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites, arguing that their presence makes it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons. But the United States also imposed sanctions on Irans Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) ...

Bloomberg - The Trump administration will extend sanctions waivers allowing limited work on Irans civil nuclear program for another 60 days, two people familiar with the matter said. At the same time, the administration will announce sanctions on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and its chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, according to the people, who ...

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the department will grant sanction waivers to allow Americans or any one else to participate in the investigation of Wednesdays crash of an Ukrainian International Boeing 737-800 airliner in Iran that killed 176 people. Under U.S. sanctions law, the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets ...

Press TV - The US Secretary of State says Washington will end the sanctions wavier related to Iran's Fordow nuclear facility in the middle of next month. Speaking at a Monday press briefing about the Fordow site, Mike Pompeo said there was no legitimate reason for Iran to resume enrichment at Fordow. "President [Hassan] Rouhani recently announced ...

The Hill - Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will propose legislation barring the Trump administration from granting sanctions waivers to the Iranian government, the House Republican Conference chairwoman said on Monday. "These civil nuclear' waivers legitimize Iran's illicit nuclear infrastructure and help sustain President Obama's disastrous nuclear deal,...

Reuters - The United States plans to allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue work at Iranian nuclear facilities to make it harder for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The Trump administration, which last year pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions ...

Press TV - France says efforts aimed at saving a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal on the Iranian nuclear program hinges on the United States provision of waivers from the sanctions it has unilaterally and illegally re-imposed on Tehran. That all supposes of course that [US] President [Donald] Trump allows waivers on some points of the American bans,...

MNA India's Ambassador to US said the decision of the United States to stop issuing waivers for the purchase of Iranian oil has hurt India's bottom line. The decision of the United States to stop issuing waivers for the purchase of Iranian oil has hurt India's bottom line and New Delhi hopes that Washington will show similar flexibility in issues ...

Sputnik - US National Security Adviser John Bolton announced Wednesday that the United States will extend its key sanctions waivers for five Iranian nuclear programs for a total of 90 days. "I think the idea here is we are watching those nuclear activities very, very closely," Bolton said in an interview with Fox Business. "So this is a short, 90-...

MNA The United States is set to announce this week it will renew sanctions waivers for five Iran nuclear programs, according to a report. The waivers will allow Russia, China and European countries to continue civilian nuclear cooperation with Iran, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. President Donald Trump, in an Oval Office meeting last ...

The New York Times - The United States has allowed Iraq to import Iranian gas for its power grid for another three months by extending a waiver to sanctions - but insists that Baghdad seek alternative sources. Iraq has had several extensions to the waiver first granted last year after Washington reimposed sanctions on Tehran's oil sector forbidding ...

Sputnik - In10 days, the Indian government held three internal meetings to figure out ways to resume importing Iranian crude oil. A few shipments arrived in India from Iran after the deadline for the US' oil sanctions waivers, on 2 May. New Delhi (Sputnik): In a significant development, amid rising pressure from the US to completely ban crude imports ...

IRNA US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells announced the US approval of Kabul application for exempting Chabahar Port from the US sanctions. She made the remarks in a meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani on Monday. Rabbani, for his part, appreciated the US for ...

MNA An Iraqi informed source said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Iraqi President Barham Salih have stressed extension of Iraq's sanctions waiver for buying Iran's energy. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday, involving meetings with high-ranking officials, including Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi ...

Tehran Times - Surrounded by fifteen neighboring countries through land and sea, Iran enjoys a very strategic geopolitical and economic position in the Middle East and considering the U.S. recent actions for increasing pressure on the countrys oil industry, many economy experts and scholars believe that Iran should retaliate by focusing more on ...

Press TV - The United States has announced exemptions to new sanctions imposed on Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), easing foreign dealings with the elite military force, which Washington blacklisted earlier this month. Under the waivers outlined by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in two notices on Wednesday, foreign governments and ...

IRNA - Pakistani English news dailies have slammed the US move to end sanctions waivers for some of the consumers of Iranian oil. After withdrawing from the JCPOA and re-imposition of unilateral sanctions against Iran the US had agreed to let eight countries, including China, Japan, India and South Korea, Taiwan, Italy and Greece keep buying Iranian ...

Tasnim The Iraqi parliaments Foreign Relations Committee plans to pressure the US officials to extend a sanctions waiver for Baghdad to continue importing energy from neighboring Iran, Hassan al-Fadam, a member of the committee announced. Speaking to the Arabic-language al-Sumaria News, Fadam said it is likely that the US would extend the anti-...