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The White House announced in a statement that Ueli Maurer, the President of Swiss, will arrive in Washington on Thursday without prior notice to discuss Iran and recent tensions.

A report by the New York Times suggested that the US Acting Defence Secretary offered a military plan to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.

The announcement of new sanctions issued this week on Iran’s metals sector by the United States are to hit the Islamic Republic’s economy hard and in turn hinder its ballistic missile program according to analysts, as reported by The Washington Free Beacon.<

Two Chinese state-owned oil companies are stopping imports from Iran for May as US ended sanction waivers to increase pressure on Tehran, Reuters reported. 

The Dutch National Trade Union, in a letter dated April 30 urged Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to release Iranian labor activist “immediately and unconditionally.”

Following reports by the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States will end waivers on countries currently receiving Iranian oil exports caused an almost three percent spike in oil prices on Monday.

A terror cell known as Seleka in central Africa accused of deadly attacks and spreading anti-Western propaganda was dismantled this week in the country of Chad.

The US Department of State officially designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as “a foreign terrorist group” on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Tehran shows its anger, promising to response in kind as US blacklisted Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday, named it a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Mike Pompeo US Secretary of State announced the designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist group on Monday, April 8, 2019.