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Gold trader gets time served in Iran sanctions case that strained US-Turkey relations
Reza Zarrab, a businessman who admitted conspiring with a Turkish bank to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions by trading its oil for gold, was sentenced Tuesday to time already served after cooperating with investigators in a case that strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey. Zarrab has testified that he paid millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Turkey to facilitate the sanctions-busting scheme. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, publicly disparaged the corruption allegations as an American plot to “blackmail” Turkey, and lobbied the administrations of three U.S. presidents to halt the case. ... (full story)
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U.S. launches fresh wave of strikes on Iran, as analysts warn conflict risks becoming ‘forever war’ The U.S. launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran early Wednesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump warned military strikes would intensify next week if Tehran does not cooperate in peace talks. U.S. Central Command said in a post on X on Wednesday that it had begun launching a wave of strikes against Iran at 6 a.m. ET. “The strikes are designed to further degrade military capabilities Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” it said. Centcom had carried out more strikes against Iran on Tuesday. Tehran, meanwhile, has launched attacks on multiple Gulf countries. In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday evening, Trump hinted that the conflict was more likely to intensify than de-escalate as a fragile ceasefire agreed last month continues to fracture.
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