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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif: Its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal “are finished” • Ukraine to push Iran to deliver black boxes from passenger plane shot down by Iran’s military.
A reliable and price-competitive natural-gas alternative in the Mediterranean could diminish Moscow’s ability to use energy as a political weapon against Europe.
Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s right-wing Lega Party, sits down for an interview on anti-Semitism, immigration and the relationship of Israel and the European Union.
Iranian parliament speaker responds to triggering by France, Germany and the United Kingdom of a dispute resolution mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Pressure has increased on Iran, but we continue to progress,” says Iranian president • Top E.U. diplomat meets with Iran’s foreign minister in New Delhi for “frank” talks about the latest developments surrounding the nuclear pact.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi cautioned that “if the Europeans continue the path of surrendering to the U.S. or want to abuse the dispute mechanism, they should prepare to accept the consequences and these consequences have been reminded to them before.”
The Palestinian Authority has launched a campaign to annul a new E.U. funding stipulation, claiming that the “struggle” against Israel is not terrorism, and that Palestinian institutions and organizations on the E.U. terror list are “political parties.”
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has revealed connections between supposed Palestinian human-rights organizations and terrorist groups.
“Recognition would neither be a favour, nor blank check, but a simple recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to their own state,” says Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.
“History and your own people will judge you harshly” for choosing to appease Tehran, states Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Following the recent U.S. policy shift on Israeli settlements, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas calls on Europe to formally recognize a Palestinian state.
Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Poland issue a joint statement reiterating that “all settlement activity is illegal under international law,” and calling on Israel “to end all settlement activity, in line with its obligations as an occupying power.”
