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Iran eyes Asia with massive petchem plant
Iran has begun execution of a project worth $12 billion to build 17 petrochemical units in the Iranian city of Chabahar on the Sea of Oman coast.

Iran has begun execution of a project worth $12 billion to build 17 petrochemical units in the Iranian city of Chabahar on the Sea of Oman coast.

An investigative journalist says the United States is under pressure from the Israeli lobby to claim that Iran has agreed to inspection of its military sites.

Bahrainis protest the continued detention of the country’s main opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.

Human Rights Watch urges regional governments to pressure Myanmar to stop violence against Rohingya Muslims.

The US says its surveillance of China’s artificial islands indicates that Beijing has positioned weaponry on one of the islands in the South China Sea.

Pakistan defends its recent condemnation of the death penalty handed down to former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

An analyst says the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States paved the way for the ISIL to emerge and spread in the Middle East.

Yemeni-Americans are stranded in Djibouti with the US embassy refusing to offer them any assistance.

America’s military and corporate elite want war, war, and more war to since war serves their interests, a political analyst and activist says.

An Egyptian police major imprisoned for his role in the fatal torturing of a detainee is released on court order.

The US government is warning against a rush for trade with Iran but US allies are not waiting for sanctions on Tehran to come down and the American media is taking note.

The European Union extends its sanctions against Syria for another year.

The UN says over 3.5 million are displaced due to conflicts in Africa’s Sahel.

The man who massacred 12 people and injured 70 others at a movie theater in Denver three years ago, was definitely sane, says a psychiatrist.

Chilean police clash with students demanding better public education during a demonstration.

A senior Iranian official reaffirms the need for a political solution to the crises in Yemen and Syria.

A political commentator says the wars in Yemen, Syria and Iraq are the consequences of the US policy in the Middle East.

Six people are killed in fresh violent clashes between army soldiers and FARC rebels in northeast Colombia.