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Iran signs mobile phone, petrol deals with Syria

Iran will build a mobile phone network and petrol terminal in Syria under deals signed in Tehran Tuesday during a visit by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, Iranian media reported. The five deals include a “license for a mobile phone operator, the transfer of 5,000 hectares for the creation of a...

US scolds Bahrain for execution of three Shiites

The United States on Tuesday scolded its ally Bahrain over the recent executions of three Shiites who had been sentenced to death for a deadly bomb attack on police. The executions have ignited major demonstrations and rekindled tensions between the Shiite majority and Sunni rulers of the...

Iran 'hostile' to US involvement in Syria talks

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday that his government opposed the United States joining Syrian peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. "We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them," Zarif said, according to the...