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Syria’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari called the United States a “monster … who sponsored terrorism” throughout the Middle East during a session of the Security Council on the situation in Syria on Tuesday. “The U.S. representative said that there is a single monster today which stands in the face of the whole world, and it is a monster which has armed and financed terrorists for more than seven years in Syria, and I say that this monster is the U.S., Britain, and France who sponsored terrorism in Syria and before it in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya,” al-Jaafari said, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday also claimed that the United States and Israel are “boosting the morale of terrorists” in Syria. On Saturday, a deadly chemical weapons attack occurred in the last Syrian rebel-held town of Douma, leaving at least 60 people dead and injuring at … [Read more...] about Syrian U.N. Rep Calls United States a ‘Monster’ Terror Sponsor

China is "taking advantage" of the United States through its continued theft of intellectual property, former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Wednesday. "Look, this is a relationship that is rising as most important to us," the one-time vice-presidential nominee from Connecticut told Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria" host Maria Bartiromo. "The Chinese are not threatening to us in the same way the Iranians are..but the Chinese play a tough game, we have known it for years stealing our intellectual property." Lieberman said that even while he was in the Senate, he'd see in classified briefings what the Chinese were up to, and he thinks the time has come to blow the whistle on their activities. . "I feel we have the opportunity," said Lieberman. "We depend on each other, the Chinese and us, for economic growth in a lot of ways." Lieberman also discussed the matter of illegal immigration, specifying that he is generally pro-immigration in many ways, but there has to be rules. "Any anybody who … [Read more...] about Sen. Lieberman: China Still ‘Taking Advantage’ of United States

World Javier Solana, the former secretary-general of NATO, was refused a visa to enter the United States because he visited Iran. Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that the former Spanish foreign minister was due to give a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But an electronic authorization system rejected a U.S. visa for Solana because of recent trips he'd taken to the Islamic republic, which is among seven countries blacklisted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Solana helped negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal when he was the European Union’s foreign policy chief. He also attended the inauguration of President Hassan Rouhani in 2013. Javier Solana at the White House in 2009. The former head of NATO was denied entry into the United States because of a visit he made to Iran. Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images Recommended Slideshows 76 In Pictures: The 75 Most Powerful Military Forces in the World 61 … [Read more...] about Ex-NATO Chief Denied Entry Into United States Because He Went to Iran

Iran filed a lawsuit against the United States on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Washington’s reimposition of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. “In order to make up for the United States’ re-imposition of illegal sanctions against our country, to reclaim the rights of the Iranian nation and to internationally sue the US for its violations, the Foreign Ministry, in coordination with the Presidential Office’s Centre for International Law Affairs and other relevant authorities, put on its agenda the filing of a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the US for breaching its international obligations, especially with regards to the Treaty of Amity, economic relations and consular rights in 1955,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, according to Iran’s state-run Tasnim News agency.The United States exited the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, in … [Read more...] about Iran Brings United States to International Court of Justice over Sanctions

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Supported by ByMark Landler and Ana Swanson July 25, 2018 WASHINGTON — The United States and the European Union stepped back from the brink of a trade war on Wednesday, after President Trump said the Europeans agreed to work toward lowering tariffs and other trade barriers, and to buy billions of dollars of American exports, from soybeans to natural gas. The announcement, made by Mr. Trump and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, defused, for the moment, a trade battle that began with Mr. Trump’s tariffs on European steel and aluminum exports and threatened to escalate to its automobiles. “We’re starting the negotiation right now, but we know very much where it’s going,” Mr. Trump said, standing next to Mr. Juncker at a hastily-scheduled appearance in the White House … [Read more...] about United States and Europe Forestall Trade War With Preliminary Agreement, Further Talks