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The Turkmen Gas Hustle
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The Turkmen Gas Hustle

The Diplomat  

In 2016, Russia’s Gazprom stopped buying gas from Turkmenistan’s Turkmengaz following a pricing dispute. In late 2023, a source told S&P Global that PetroChina aimed to resume construction of the long-awaited Line D of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline “immediately if the upstream gas supply contract with Turkmenistan is finalized.” Line D is envisioned to run from Turkmenistan through southern …

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Israel rallies global support to win release of a woman believed kidnapped in Iraq
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Israel rallies global support to win release of a woman believed kidnapped in Iraq

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq nearly two years ago. He said the envoys met the family of Elizabeth Tsurkov and that Israel asked the representatives – from the U.S., U.K., Germany, …

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Italy’s Meloni hopes to attend Trump inauguration as she downplays his Greenland and Panama comments
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Italy’s Meloni hopes to attend Trump inauguration as she downplays his Greenland and Panama comments

Associated Press  

ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday she didn’t believe President-elect Donald Trump actually intends to use military force to seize control of Greenland or the Panama Canal, saying she read his comments more as a warning to China and other global players to keep their hands off such strategically important interests. “I think we can exclude that the …

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Did Trump do it for Italy? Meloni welcomes Cecilia Sala as she reaches Rome after being freed from Iran
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Did Trump do it for Italy? Meloni welcomes Cecilia Sala as she reaches Rome after being freed from Iran

India TV News  

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala arrived back in Rome on Wednesday after being released from the Iranian prison where she was detained for weeks. In a post on X, the newspaper said that Cecilia Sala landed in Ciampino after being released from Evin prison in Tehran after 21 days of detention. Sala was welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Foreign …

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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala freed from detention in Iran and returning home
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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala freed from detention in Iran and returning home

Associated Press  

ROME — An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks, whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States, was freed Wednesday and is heading home, Italian officials said. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala, 29, left Tehran after “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels,” Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office said, adding that the …

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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala freed in Iran after diplomatic efforts
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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala freed in Iran after diplomatic efforts

India Today  

An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed Wednesday and returned home, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the United States. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport, where Premier Giorgia Meloni was on hand to welcome her alongside Sala’s family …

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An Italian journalist is freed from detention in Iran and returns home
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An Italian journalist is freed from detention in Iran and returns home

LA Times  

This image released Dec. 27 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy’s foreign ministry said. In announcing that Sala was flying home, Meloni’s office said the premier had personally informed Sala’s parents and credited the release to the government’s “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence …

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Iran releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from jail
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Iran releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from jail

Al Jazeera  

Tehran denies Sala’s December 19 detainment was linked to an Iranian businessman’s arrest in Italy on a US warrant. Iran has released journalist Cecilia Sala after three weeks in jail, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office says. She was detained three days after Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini was arrested at Milan’s Malpensa airport on a US warrant. The US Justice …

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Viral Video: Iranian woman’s bold act of defiance – removes cleric’s turban, wears it as Hijab
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Viral Video: Iranian woman’s bold act of defiance – removes cleric’s turban, wears it as Hijab

Live Mint  

n a bold act of defiance that has captured global attention, an Iranian woman confronted a cleric at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, removing his turban and placing it on her head as a makeshift hijab. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE In the video the Iranian woman is The incident has sparked significant debate online, with many praising the woman's actions as a …

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Iran pulls most forces from Syria, in blow to Tehran’s regional ambitions
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Iran pulls most forces from Syria, in blow to Tehran’s regional ambitions

Live Mint  

Iranian forces have largely withdrawn from Syria following the Assad regime’s December collapse, according to U.S., European and Arab officials, in a significant blow to Tehran’s strategy for projecting power in the Middle East. Syria was Iran’s main state ally in the Middle East and a critical land bridge to Hezbollah—the most powerful militia in Tehran’s self-labeled “axis of resistance" …

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Nimisha Priya case handled by Houthis, not ratified by president: Yemen embassy
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Nimisha Priya case handled by Houthis, not ratified by president: Yemen embassy

Hindustan Times  

The death sentence imposed on Indian nurse Nimisha Priya by a court in Yemen has been controlled by the Houthi militia and has not been ratified by president Rashad al-Alimi, the country's embassy said, as quoted by news agency PTI. Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala, was sentenced to death by the trial court in Sana’a, Yemen Yemen's embassy on …

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Iran nuclear programme nearing ‘point of no return’, France’s Macron says
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Iran nuclear programme nearing ‘point of no return’, France’s Macron says

Al Jazeera  

French president says Paris will engage with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump on the ‘Iranian question’. French President Emmanuel Macron has called Iran the main “strategic and security challenge” for Europeans in the Middle East, raising concern over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Speaking to French ambassadors posted around the world on Monday, the French president also criticised Iran …

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A weakened Iran prepares to face Trump 2.0
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A weakened Iran prepares to face Trump 2.0

Live Mint  

Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in the Middle East. Iran’s leadership “is probably experiencing the most profound challenges of its own making" in years, said Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North …

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Italy's PM to meet Trump in Florida amid reporter's detention in Iran: Report
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Italy's PM to meet Trump in Florida amid reporter's detention in Iran: Report

India Today  

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is flying to Florida where she will meet President-elect Donald Trump, Italian media reported on Saturday. Sala was detained three days after Mohammad Abedini, an Iranian businessman, was arrested at Milan's Malpensa airport on a US warrant for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington says were used in a 2023 attack that killed three US …

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Italian PM Meloni meets Trump amid heightened tensions with Iran over Cecilia Sala's arrest
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Italian PM Meloni meets Trump amid heightened tensions with Iran over Cecilia Sala's arrest

India TV News  

Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, met US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday. Trump calls Meloni 'fantastic woman' Referring to his meeting with Meloni, as "exciting", Trump said, "I'm here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy. Trump watched the documentary with Meloni along with his pick for the incoming administration's secretary of state, Florida Senator, Mike Waltz, …

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Dutch MP says he felt intimidated by Iranian regime's threatening email
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Dutch MP says he felt intimidated by Iranian regime's threatening email

NL Times  

VVD Member of the Tweede Kamer Ulysse Ellian revealed he was intimidated by the Iranian government, describing a threatening email from the Iranian embassy in The Hague that suggested the regime was monitoring him. The email, sent over three years ago, warned Ellian of his Iranian nationality “through the blood of father” and claimed Iranian law applied to him. Through …

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Iranian suspect detained in Italy in US drone case praying for Italian reporter detained in Tehran
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Iranian suspect detained in Italy in US drone case praying for Italian reporter detained in Tehran

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The fate of an Italian …

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Iran warns Italy that bilateral ties at risk if it bows to ‘hostile’ US demands over drone suspect
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Iran warns Italy that bilateral ties at risk if it bows to ‘hostile’ US demands over drone suspect

Associated Press  

ROME — Iran warned Italy on Friday that it risked harming good bilateral relations if it bows to the “political and hostile goals” of the United States by detaining an Iranian engineer on a U.S. warrant in connection with a drone attack in Jordan last year that killed three American troops. According to IRNA, a foreign ministry official, Majid Nili …

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Jimmy Carter vs. Iran: The untold story revealed in the archives
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Jimmy Carter vs. Iran: The untold story revealed in the archives

Live Mint  

The popular impression for the four decades since his presidency is that Jimmy Carter, who died this week, is responsible for somehow “losing" Iran. It was the shah who rejected this option and wondered “why the president thought a military government could be successful," according to a cable Sullivan sent after their meeting; he also noted that “the situation was …

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Iran, Italy locked in diplomatic standoff over Cecilia Sala's arrest, US gives new twist
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Iran, Italy locked in diplomatic standoff over Cecilia Sala's arrest, US gives new twist

India TV News  

In what comes as a major escalation, Iran and Italy have locked horns over the arrest of an Italian journalist in Iran. The complicated development started brewing on December 16 after the US Justice Department accused two Iranian citizens of supplying drone technology to Iran, which was reportedly used in January 2024 to attack on a US outpost in Jordan …

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Biden administration mulled strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities: report
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Biden administration mulled strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities: report

Raw Story  

President Joe Biden was presented with a plan to strike Iranian nuclear facilities if Iran moves to develop a nuclear weapon before he leaves office on Jan. 20, reported Axios on Thursday. The plan, presented by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, "would be an enormous gamble from a president who promised he would not allow Iran to develop a nuclear …

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Trump's latest rant urging CIA to act inside U.S. triggers legal fears
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Trump's latest rant urging CIA to act inside U.S. triggers legal fears

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump, in an angry midnight rant, criticized the United States on multiple fronts and called for the Central Intelligence Agency, a U.S. civilian foreign intelligence entity, to conduct investigations within the United States — a move potentially unlawful and a possible threat to Americans’ civil rights. Declaring America a “disaster,” and a “laughing stock all over the World,” …

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Italy-Iran diplomatic tangle escalates over detained citizens as US seeks man over drone attack
1 week, 1 day ago

Italy-Iran diplomatic tangle escalates over detained citizens as US seeks man over drone attack

Associated Press  

ROME — Italy summoned Iran’s ambassador on Thursday to demand the release of an Italian journalist while Tehran demanded Italy free an Iranian citizen arrested on a U.S. warrant over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago. U.S. prosecutors said Abedini’s Tehran-based company manufactures navigation systems for the military drone program of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary …

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Iranian minister on visit to Delhi to pitch for resuming energy trade
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Iranian minister on visit to Delhi to pitch for resuming energy trade

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Iran’s deputy foreign minister Majid Takht Ravanchi is on a visit to India for talks aimed at resuming energy trade, which stopped in 2019 because of US sanctions, and exploring options for ramping up non-oil trade. Majid Takht-Ravanchi, the deputy foreign minister for political affairs, is heading the Iranian side in India- Iran political consultations India and Iran …

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