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16:59
Iran Deal Must Put Iranians At The Center, Policy Analyst Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau Says
People walk past a billboard with an image of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on July 13.
WASHINGTON — As tensions between the US and Iran intensifies, with renewed military strikes and growing arguments around the Strait of Hormuz, global attention has focused on regional security, commercial shipping, and the risk of wider escalation.
But Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, a former senior US diplomat who is currently the Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute, argues that the most important story is unfolding inside Iran itself.
In an interview with RFE/RL, Trudeau says the daily lives, rights, and freedoms of ordinary Iranians must become a central part of any diplomatic process.
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15:29
Drone Strikes Reported At Iraq’s Basra Port
Reports from Iraq say drones struck two vessels at the port of Basra.
A security official told the AFP news agency that a drone hit a ship carrying American-branded cars near an oil terminal on July 16. The vessel had arrived from the United Arab Emirates, the official said.
Separately, four Iraqi oil and security sources told Reuters that crude-oil loading at all Iraqi terminals had been halted after a drone struck an oil tanker at the Basra terminal.
Responding to the reports, an Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman said crude loading at the countrys southern terminals had been temporarily suspended but later resumed. The ministry also said that officials were investigating reports that an unidentified object had fallen onto an oil tanker.
Iraqi sources said the incident caused no damage or fire.
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14:48
What Is Iran’s Secretive Pickaxe Mountain?
Satellite images show Iran is accelerating work at a secretive nuclear-related site deep beneath Kuh-e Kolang mountain, known as Pickaxe Mountain.
Intelligence agencies suspect this is where Iran is seeking to build a secret uranium enrichment facility.
What do we know about one of the most fortified sites in Iran, which US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack?
