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US, Iran envoys head for talks, Israeli strikes continue after ceasefire

A halt to the fighting in Lebanon is a condition for starting 60 days of US-Iranian talks

Some of the sharpest criticism of the agreement has involved reports that the Trump administration has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets.

‘Worst foreign policy blunder in decades’: US Republicans blast Trump’s Iran agreement as details emerge

Criticism was a rare rebuke from party members who have mostly offered full loyalty to the president

An Apple contract gives Intel a steady demand and boosts both its reputation and its manufacturing business.

Trump says Apple to partner with Intel on US chip design, production

The partnership helps Apple to diversify its manufacturing base as it seeks additional chip capacity

Iran hawks lamented Trump’s new vision, while some of the president’s most vehement critics cheered.
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‘Missiles aren’t the problem’: Trump blows through his Iran red lines in justifying peace deal

Trump suggests that Iran should have the right to enrich uranium, be allowed to develop ballistic missiles

The US-Iran MOU aims to restore shipping through Hormuz and buy time for negotiations over unresolved nuclear questions.

The US-Iran deal is foreign policy realism at work

The agreement, however incomplete, is about achieving what’s possible

Teheran has consistently said that it has no intention of building a bomb and its programme is for peaceful purposes.

Has Trump achieved his goals in the war with Iran?

The US president has repeatedly said that his main goal is to prevent Teheran from developing a nuclear weapon

Trump says that Israel has been fighting Hizbollah, the Iran-aligned Lebanese militia, for “too long”.

Trump criticises Israel’s tactics in Lebanon, says it is killing civilians

The US president complaint comes at a moment of rising tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Negotiators would address difficult issues like the future of Iran’s nuclear programme during the next phase of talks to be held during the 60-day window.

US-Iran deal promises end to war but how it will work remains unclear

Shipowners would not sail through Hormuz until they were confident the US-Iran deal was ‘material’, says CEO of Mitsui OSK

A gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz – while talks begin over Iran’s nuclear programme – leaves a lot of room for disputes and misunderstandings.

A fragile Iran peace follows a war without victors

Trump’s deal reflects the failure of the military option in Iran

US President Donald Trump praised two world leaders he has called his friends, Xi Jinping (left) of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Trump thanks China and Russia, partners of Iran, for diplomatic help in sealing ceasefire deal

Like China, Russia has been trying to position itself as a diplomatic back channel in the war