(2022-02-22). Progress Toward Iran Deal Raises Hopes for New Oil Exports. news.antiwar.com Iran's Foreign Ministry has again reported This is a continuation of recent optimism about the process, with Iran in particular seeing a lot of steps in the right direction. The expectation is that the P5+1 deal will be restored, though exact details on things like Iran wanting…
(2022-02-22). Vienna Talks to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal Might Be 'Finalised Within Next Couple of Days'. sputniknews.com In May 2018, the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, who responded by abandoning its commitments under the agreement. Since April 2021, Vienna has been hosting talks to restore the accord.
(2022-02-21). Headlines for February 21, 2022. democracynow.org Possible Biden-Putin Summit Announced Amid High Tensions, Unrest in Eastern Ukraine, California to Start Treating COVID-19 as Endemic Disease, Queen Elizabeth Tests Positive for Coronavirus; Canadian Police Clear Ottawa of "Freedom Convoy", 6 African Countries to Receive mRNA Technology as Part of WHO Program to Expand Vaccine Production, Al-Shabab Claims Bomb Blast That Killed at Least 13 in Somalian City of Beledweyne, Clashes on Malian Border Kill Dozens as France Announces Gradual Withdrawal, Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Revived as Talks Enter Final Stretch, Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor Is Most De…
(2022-02-21). Putin: Ukraine's threat to develop nuclear weapons not an empty bravado. tass.com Kiev has Soviet technologies and delivery systems for such weapons, Russian President said…
(2022-02-21). Biden and Putin Agree "in Principle" to Ukraine Summit Amid Rising Tensions. truthout.org 
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday agreed "in principle" to hold a summit on Ukraine as global fears of a war involving the two nuclear-armed powers remain high. | In a
(2022-02-21). Iran nuclear deal overshadows Russia worries on oil market radar. rt.com 
Oil prices have made their first weekly drop since the beginning of the year before recovering on Monday | Global crude prices dropped for the week ending Sunday for the first time this year. The slide came amid reports of a US-Russia summit on Ukraine and hopes of reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. Both Russia and Iran are major global energy suppliers. | However, the price drop was short-lived as global benchmark Brent crude gained on Monday to trade above $93 per barrel by 10: 00 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was trading around $91 per barrel. | Both benchmarks reached multiple-year highs las…
(2022-02-21). Iran, Venezuela stress development of bilateral cooperation. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia in a meeting in Doha stressed the continuation of bilateral cooperation between the two countries in all fields.
(2022-02-21). Washington's Indisputable Guilt in Worsening Relations with Iran. journal-neo.org 
Iran and the United States used to be the closest allies before the 1979 Iranian revolution, but now they are uncompromising enemies. Quite a peculiar political metamorphosis. Makes one wonder how former close friends turned into such enemies in just over forty years? And why it is the US who is still full of such violent …
(2022-02-21). Iran Urges West to Show 'Willingness' for Nuke Deal. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh called on the Europeans and the United States to show "willingness" for a possible nuclear deal. | RELATED: | The Iranian delegation has presented its proposals on remaining issues to the relevant parties of the ongoing nuclear negotiations in Vienna, Khatibzadeh told a weekly press conference. | Dialogues in the Austrian capital have made significant p…
(2022-02-21). Israel's Lapid Calls on US Not to Delist Iran's IRGC as Terrorists. news.antiwar.com On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that the Biden administration might be open to "Everyone in his right mind should talk to the administration about this and tell them, 'This is just wrong, don't do that,'" Lapid said at a conference in Jerusalem. | At the same conference, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Tehran was asking for…
(2022-02-21). 'Politics as Usual' Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War). transcend.org 17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity's greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)…
(2022-02-21). China's second Hualong One reactor reaches full power. ecns.cn China's second nuclear power unit using Hualong One, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, reached full power operation for the first time, bringing it one step closer to commercial operation.