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Iran President Raisi presents Cabinet to Parliament for approval, declaring escalating Coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis as his priorities.

What is happening in Iran today. The latest Iran news, coronavirus outbreak, latest protests, economic and social problems, and more.

TDT | Manama The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com Bahrain’s Foreign Direct...

Bahrain has recorded foreign direct investments (FDI) worth BD11.9 billion ($31.3 billion) for 2020, thus registering an increase of 3.3 per cent over the previous year, said the kingdom’s Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) in a new report.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has sent some apparently mixed messages about his country’s intentions regarding its nuclear program. In early February, he vowed that once the United States completely lifted economic sanctions, Iran would return to full compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. But just two weeks later, Khamenei declared that Iran might enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity if the country needed it. Moreover, he has lent his support to a new law in the Iranian ...

"[T]he Islamic Republic Theocracy is on the verge of collapse". — Letter from 38 Iran-based dissidents to the Biden administration, February 1, 2021. "The moment Biden joins the nuclear deal and unblocks the money for the Islamic Republic, the regime will once again dish out money even to Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda, but Iranians will keep remaining in a bad state." — Fatemeh Sepehri, interview with Masih Alinejad, Twitter, February 5, 2021. "We dont have human rights in Iran....People are repr...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Even if the deal negotiated in 2015 by the Obama administration were worth the effort, it is impossible to imagine the Iranians willingly recommitting to enrichment levels they have long since blown past. No one believes in their professed "peaceful use" of nuclear energy. So why does a return to the deal make any sense? The killing of top terror-funding IRGC official Qasem Soleimani by the US military and Irans relatively toothless retaliatory attack against two US bases in Iraq suggest that t...

Intra-Commodity Trade: GCCs Golden Opportunity to Achieve Sustainable Growth Rates Published January 6th, 2021 - 08:30 GMT Ranking 13th among the worlds largest economies, the GCC controls a large proportion of global oil production. ( Highlights All six GCC states continue to develop economic interdependence through implementing a host of measures, the most important of which is working towards realizing a fully integrated single market by launching a common market. The Gulf Cooperation ...

Before his appointment, Altekhaifi served as president of the General Authority for Statistics between 2016 and 2020. He also served as chairman of the board for the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat), and also represented Saudi Arabia as a board member of the International Comparative Program (Statistical Division – UN). Altekhaifi also served as assistant deputy minister for development at the Ministry of Labor from 2011 to 2016. Bef...