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US Congress Agreed on $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package 25 Mar 2020

US Congress Agreed on $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package

US congress and Trump administration officials have reached an agreement on a massive economic stimulus bill to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

UAE Lobby Tries to Impose Sanctions on Turkey 17 Dec 2019

UAE Lobby Tries to Impose Sanctions on Turkey

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The United Arab Emirates lobby is pushing the US Congress to impose sanctions on Turkey, according to documents reviewed by Anadolu news agency on Monday. An email from Charles Johnson, a partner with the UAE-hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lobby group, that was sent the week after the […]

New obstacles in Turkey-US relations 30 Oct 2019

New obstacles in Turkey-US relations

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Not long after the US-Turkish agreement on Syria, approval of the Armenian Genocide in the US Congress caused a new crisis in the relations of Ankara-Washington. The issue of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman is perhaps the most sensitive issue in Turkish foreign policy, which has been used at various […]

Trump tweets racist attacks at Democratic congresswomen: report 15 Jul 2019

Trump tweets racist attacks at Democratic congresswomen: report

US President Donald Trump, who has a long history of making racist remarks, once again used racist language on Sun. to attack progressive Democratic congresswomen, falsely implying they weren't natural-born American citizens.

US Congress Publishes Draft Bill Prohibiting Use of Funds to Violate INF Treaty 07 Mar 2019

US Congress Publishes Draft Bill Prohibiting Use of Funds to Violate INF Treaty

The US Congress has released the text of a draft bill, dubbed INF Treaty Compliance Act of 2019, which seeks to ban the Pentagon from using its funds for testing and procuring weapons prohibited under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in the 2020 fiscal year.

US Congress seeks sanctions on Iran’s cryptocurrency efforts: report 22 Dec 2018

US Congress seeks sanctions on Iran’s cryptocurrency efforts: report

 US lawmakers have introduced a bill this week in Congress to undermine Iran’s efforts to develop its own cryptocurrency. According to New York-based CoinDesk, a news site specializing in bitcoin and digital currencies, Rep. Mike Gallagher has submitted a bill to the US House of Representatives called ‘Blocking Iran Illicit Finance Act’, calling for imposition of […]

US government set to shuts down over border wall disputes 22 Dec 2018

US government set to shuts down over border wall disputes

 The US federal government partially shut down after members of Congress failed to resolve disputes over $5 billion in spending for President Donald Trump’s border wall. Trump had previously said he would be “proud’ to shut down the government unless he received the $5 billion he is seeking to fund the construction of a barrier […]