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US secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited on Sunday his Swiss counterpart, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, as international concerns are raising about US-Iran tensions in the Middle East.

Hezbollah has been forced to make severe cutbacks to its spending. The Lebanese Shi'a militia has received more than $700 million a year, 70% of its revenue, from the Khomeiniist regime in the past.

The United States signed on Wednesday a mutual defence cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates as tensions raised with Tehran, Aljazeera reported.

As tensions are rising between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, most of the Iraqi officials have declared their neutrality and have been playing a mediate role between the country’s two major allies.

Mohammad Ali Najafi, former Mayor of Iran’s capital city of Tehran killed his wife, Mitra Ostad on Tuesday hours before she was expected to be interviewed by Ensaf News Agency.

A top Iranian official said his country will, “step by step,” scale back its commitments under 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Iranian authorities have arrested a number of 30 women and men who were attending a private mixed Yoga course in the city of Gorgan.

Iranian police give zero attention to the alarming drug using and trafficking in its Kurdish region, sources inside the region talked to Avatoday on condition of anonymity.

The United States Department of the Treasury has reportedly warned Iraq over its foreign exchange transaction with Iran and violations of US sanctions, a confidential source from Baghdad told Avatoday on Friday.

The Omani Foreign Ministry tweeted on Friday that they are trying “with other parties” to decrease the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran, Reuters reported.