Iran moves assets in successful test of lifting of sanctions

The list included people and companies that were based out of China and the United Arab Emirates that had been serving as a front for Iranian military trafficking.

Dehqan said the ballistic missile sanctions show the U.S.is “hostile” toward Iran and he pledged to unveil new missile developments soon.

State television reported that Khamenei wrote to President Hassan Rouhani to congratulate him on implementing the nuclear deal, which resulted in U.S., European Union and United Nations sanctions being lifted over the weekend.

In a speech delivered from the White House, President Barack Obama hailed the beginning of the implementation of the historic Iran Nuclear Deal.

Also Monday, Yukiya Amano, the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog, said Iran has agreed to strengthen its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Saudi-Iranian political rivalry has aggravated tumult across West Asia, but has escalated recently as Riyadh’s new rulers have taken a harder line and as the nuclear deal has relieved pressure on Tehran.

Khamenei has never endorsed repairing relations with the U.S. and has largely followed a similar tack to Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who dubbed America the “Great Satan”.

Meanwhile three Iranian-Americans have left Tehran under a prisoner swap following the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

The U.S. government would “not rest” until another American citizen, Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran more than eight years ago, was located, he said. The four, along with United States student Matthew Trevithick, who was released separately, were free in exchange for pardons or dropped charges for seven Iranians detained for sanctions violations.

Iran’s release of several hostages is, of course, wonderful news for these Americans and their loved ones – but how the Team Obama got it done is ugly indeed.

In a reciprocal move, Obama said that six Iranian-Americans and one Iranian serving sentences or awaiting trial were being granted clemency.

To settle the Iranian claim, which had been hanging in the Hague Tribunal since 1981, the U.S.is returning the money in the fund along with “a roughly $1.3 billion compromise on the interest”, the U.S. State Department statement said.

He said differences with Iran remained, and the USA would “remain steadfast in opposing Iran’s destabilising behaviour elsewhere” – such as its missile tests.

Under the agreement, limits are put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all nuclear-related economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.