16 Apr 2021; MEMO: Iran has supplied the Syrian regime with 3 million barrels of oil to address the worsening fuel crisis in the regime-controlled areas of Syria, Anadolu Agency reported.
16 Apr 2021; MEMO: Turkey criticised a court ruling on the closure of Quran courses in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), saying the decision "is the product of an ideological and dogmatic mind", Anadolu Agency reports.
According to the news wire, Turkey's communications director Fahrettin Altun said: "To interpret secularism in such a shallow and wrong way is a step towards abolishing fundamental rights and freedoms."
16 Apr 2021; MEMO: Iran has begun 60 per cent uranium enrichment at its Natanz plant, the country's nuclear chief said today, days after an explosion at the site that Tehran blamed on Israel, Reuters reported.
"We are producing about nine grams of 60% enriched uranium an hour," Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said. "But we have to work on arrangements to drop it to 5 grams per hour."
16 Apr 2021; MEMO: Turkey's Central Bank has outlawed the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method for the purchase of goods and services, joining the list of countries to have directly banned them as cryptocurrencies gain significance in the global market.
16 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Fatah Central Committee member and lawmaker Marwan Barghouti has entered his 20th year in Israeli jails on charges of leading the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, Anadolu Agency reported.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club said Barghouti, 62, is currently serving a life sentence in Hadarim prison in northern Israel.
16 Apr 2021; MEMO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced on Thursday that his country would limit uranium enrichment to 3.67 per cent if the US rejoins the 2015 nuclear deal and lifts sanctions.
TEHRAN, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian nuclear delegates will not engage in "attritional" negotiations only "for the sake of negotiations," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday.
"As we did not accept talks leading to a photo op in the past four years, today we will seriously refuse to engage in negotiations for the sake of negotiations as well," he wrote on social media late at night, as quoted by Iran's Press TV.
TEHRAN, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday dismissed concerns about Iran's plan to enrich uranium to 60-percent purity, saying that "we are not looking for a nuclear bomb."
"Some have interpreted that 60 percent is a means to reaching 90 percent (of uranium enrichment). It is not correct. It is wrong to think that we are paving the way for the production of the atomic bomb," Rouhani was quoted by official IRNA news agency as saying.
ANKARA, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Turkey believes that its issues with Greece can be resolved through constructive dialogue between the two neighbors and allies, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday.
Fait accompli and provocative rhetoric should be avoided in relations between Turkey and Greece, Cavusoglu said at a joint press conference with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
The visit of the Greek minister to Turkey's capital Ankara came after months of tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean last year between the two neighbors.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank is banning the use of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in payments for goods and services, according to a decision published in the country’s Official Gazette on Friday.
The decision comes as many in Turkey have turned to cryptocurrencies to shield their savings from rising inflation and the Turkish currency’s slump.
In a statement explaining its reasons, the bank said transactions carried out through the use of cryptocurrencies presented “irrevocable” risks.
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