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WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2023 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs bill on a 32 to 24 vote. In total, the bill provides $64.57 billion, which is $8.475 billion above 2022 – an increase of 15 percent. The legislation: Increases humanitarian and development assistance to help the world’s most vulnerable meet urgent
Iran and the United States are slated to resume indirect talks on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal in Qatar on June 28. E.U. diplomats, led by foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, will mediate. Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani will lead Iran’s negotiating team. Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley will head the U.S. delegation.
Iran's new optimism faces some serious challenges in an impasse with the US that has been lingering since March.
The current US administration has tried numerous strategies and incentives to compel the Iranian leadership to return to full compliance with the nuclear deal it signed with the P5+1 world powers in 2015. President Joe Biden, whose predecessor withdrew the US from the deal in 2018, had hoped that Iran would accept a mutual return to the nuclear agreement in order to attain