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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.

The council of European Union renewed 2011 ban on some Iranians and an entity for the country’s troubling human right situation.

 South Korea has started testing super-light US oil as a substitute for Tehran’s crude oil now that US is trying to cut off Iran oil to zero, Todayonline reported in an exclusive report.

Three out of eight importers of Iran oil who have been enjoying US waivers, had successfully cut off Iran’s oil shipments to zero, a US official confirmed.