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News Articles: Middle East

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (second right) listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran on Saturday.

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  • World

Iran Calls Natanz Atomic Site Blackout 'Nuclear Terrorism'

Iran on Sunday described a blackout at its underground Natanz atomic facility an act of "nuclear terrorism," raising regional tensions.

April 11, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Bahareh and Emad Shargi in California in June 2017.

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  • Middle East

3 Years Later, A Prisoner's Family Still Awaits His Return From Iran

Iranian authorities first imprisoned Emad Shargi, a U.S. citizen, in 2018. Shargi, a businessman, was released from prison, then rearrested in 2020. His family hopes that speaking out may help him.

April 08, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Robert Malley, pictured in 2018, helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. He's now involved in talks to potentially restart the deal, beginning this week in Vienna.

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  • World

Biden Envoy To Iran On What To Expect In Renewed Nuclear Talks

Iran and the U.S. are holding indirect talks on restarting the 2015 nuclear deal. Robert Malley, the Biden administration special envoy to Iran, says a deal would be in the interest of all Americans.

April 06, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep,
  • Lisa Weiner,
  • and 2 more
A staff person removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with representatives of the United States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks in July 2015 in Vienna.

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  • World

Reviving The Iran Nuclear Deal: Here's What It Involves And Why It's Hard

Before the U.S. pulled out, the deal gave Iran money and gave the world assurances that Iran wasn't trying to build nuclear weapons.

April 05, 2021
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By:
  • Larry Kaplow
Protesters gather outside the District Court in Jerusalem where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was attending his corruption trial Monday.

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  • Middle East

Netanyahu's Future At Stake Both In The Courtroom And In Politics

Israel's longest-serving prime minister has no clear path to forming a government after the fourth election in two years. And his trial on corruption charges has resumed with witness testimony.

April 05, 2021
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Jordan's Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah II, said Saturday that he's been placed under house arrest, a claim disputed by authorities.

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  • World

Jordan Says Plot Involving High-Profile Figures Is 'Totally Contained'

"Our security and stability are not shaken," the foreign minister said Sunday, a day after more than a dozen individuals were arrested in an alleged attempt to destabilize the government.

April 04, 2021
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Rana Sulaiman Halo (center), performs with a traditional <em>daf</em> drum with the Ashti (Peace) Choir.

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  • World

'We Will Never Break': In Iraq, A Yazidi Women's Choir Keeps Ancient Music Alive

Women from Iraq's Yazidi minority get together to perform centuries-old sacred songs. They've survived captivity by ISIS and loved ones' deaths. "They are trying to heal," says a Yazidi politician.

April 04, 2021
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By:
  • Alice Fordham
Elham Farahmand

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  • Middle East

'The Beautiful Dreams That Are Burnt': Portraits From Iran Under Sanctions

Here is a look inside the lives of Iranians from different walks of life — including a fitness trainer, butcher and carpet seller — and how they're coping with an economy battered by U.S. sanctions.

April 04, 2021
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By:
  • Marjan Yazdi and
  • Alex Leff
Traffic through the Suez Canal has returned to normal, the canal authority says. Here, the Huahine is seen crossing the canal on March 30 in Ismailia, Egypt.

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  • World

Suez Canal Traffic Backlog Finally Cleared Following The Ever Given Saga

Five days after a massive container vessel was freed from the Suez Canal, ship traffic there has returned to normal, the canal authority says.

April 03, 2021
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Christian worshippers carry a wooden cross on Friday along the path where tradition says Jesus took his final steps before his crucifixion in Jerusalem's Old City.

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  • Religion

Jerusalem's Old City Comes Alive With Religious Festivals As Vaccination Rate Rises

The city is seeing Christian and Jewish religious gatherings this week after the same events were canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

April 02, 2021
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
High-resolution satellite imagery shows the Suez Canal and the container ship Ever Given that was finally freed on Monday.

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  • Economy

How A Long Shutdown Of The Suez Canal Might Have Roiled The Global Economy

If one of the world's largest container ships had remained solidly lodged in the Suez Canal for much longer, it could have had far-reaching implications.

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Jackie Northam
Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomus University of Mexico in 2010. The second of nine children born in a village just outside of Cairo, El Saadawi rejected patriarchy at a young age, stamping her feet in protest when her grandmother told her, "a boy is worth 15 girls at least ... girls are a blight."

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  • Global Health

The 'Godmother' Of Egyptian Feminism Has Died: Remembering Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi — unwilling to be married off at an early age and, in her words, "not really fit for the role of a wife" — coalesced an activist movement that inspired generations of Egyptians.

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Rosemary Misdary
Marine biology student Ranim Tahhan, 21, pictured left, and another volunteer work to clean Tyre beach from the pollution caused by an oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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  • Middle East

Amid Myriad Crises, Lebanon Now Confronts An Ecological Disaster On Its Shores

Some of the country's last beaches spared from development are now carpeted in globs of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean, damaging beaches that are nesting grounds for endangered turtles.

March 28, 2021
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock
In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.

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  • World

No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.

March 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Heavy equipment is used to try to dig out the keel of the Ever Given, a massive cargo ship wedged across the Suez Canal.

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  • World

It 'Might Take Weeks' To Free Ship Stuck In Suez Canal, Salvage Company Says

The CEO of the Dutch company Boskalis, which is working to dislodge the 1,300-foot-long ship, compared the vessel to "an enormous beached whale."

March 25, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
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