Trump targets China over Hong Kong security law

BBC — President Donald Trump has announced that he will start to end preferential treatment for Hong Kong in trade and travel, in response to a new security law pushed by Beijing.... Read more »

The Tree that Changed the World Map

BBC — Unfurling in a carpet of green where the Andes and Amazon basin meet in south-western Peru, Manú National Park is one of the most biodiverse corners of the planet: a... Read more »

PCIA (Peace Corps Iran Association)

Brian H Appleton (contributing journalist) In the face of ever-worsening relations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a group of Americans, most of whom lived in Iran as Peace... Read more »

Money Transfer From Iran Under U.S. Sanctions

By: Zaher Fallahi, Attorney At Law, CPA OFAC Regulations Regarding Iran The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Office Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic sanctions against countries, groups and individuals. The... Read more »

A Question and Answer with Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. & Iraj Anvar

Translators of Eighty ghazals from the Díwán of Háfiz about their book:  Wine, Prayer and Hafiz of Shiraz Who is Hafiz? EG:  Hafiz of Shiraz, (d. 1389) is quite simply the most ... Read more »

Iran Rejects US Cancellation of Nuclear Sanctions Waivers

VOA — Iran says a U.S. move to cancel the last remaining sanctions waivers from the 2015 nuclear agreement will not impact its nuclear work.  A spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization... Read more »

Iranian Stock Market Boom Prompts ‘Bubble’ Warnings

VOA — Iran’s stock market has been booming for months, despite a collapse in the country’s economy and a rampant coronavirus that has struck the country hard. Even President Hassan Rouhani has... Read more »

NASA Postpones 1st Commercial Space Flight

VOA — NASA postponed Wednesday’s scheduled launch of a Space X rocket ship, the first manned commercial space flight in history. NASA canceled the launch 16 minutes before takeoff because of the... Read more »

Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish Activists Face More Harsh Treatment by Government

VOA — WASHINGTON – Members of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority have faced more harsh treatment from Iranian authorities, with one recently freed dissident being sent into internal exile and another detained... Read more »

US Closes Probes into 3 Senators over Their Stock Trades

VOA — WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has closed investigations into stock trading by Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, according to people familiar... Read more »