The EU resisted, so far, U.S. pressure to violate the UN Security Council-endorsed nuclear deal with Iran. Instead, it established a special trading mechanism known as INSTEX to bypass the U.S. sanctions to trade with Iran. Even if INSTEX falls far short of Iran’s expectations (and of many in the EU itself), it is at least a symbolic challenge to Washington...
Initial reports in the French press suggested that many of the priceless works stored and displayed within had already been removed last week during the renovations, and that the cathedral’s collection of relics and other sacred items, kept in the sacristry, were likely unharmed.
Iran's forest area is approximately 12 million hectares with 0.2 hectares per capita, which is one quarter of the world average, so attention to preserve the forest areas must be four times the global attention, faculty member of the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands has said.
On the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the country is emerging as playing a significant role in the regional and global politics, a reality could hardly be ignored by other global players, while it is deemed as initiating a process to establish a new regional order.
