Reporter Wall Street Journal Co-author of "Un Cartel Nommé Daech" ("A Cartel Named Daech"), Edi8, with @clementfayol

Joined November 2009
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Middle East mediators are scrambling to revive talks with Iran, fearful that hostilities could flare as the U.S. moves another aircraft carrier to the region and Israel warns of plans for possible new strikes. wsj.com/world/middle-east/di… w @summer_said @AnatPeled1 @benoitfaucon
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U.S. Treasury official hopscotched across Middle East and Europe with a warning to Iran’s trading partners at the behest of Secretary Bessent : You either trade with Tehran or Washington wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-… via @WSJ
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A top U.S. Treasury Department official hopscotched across the Middle East and Europe this month with a warning to Iran’s trading partners: you either trade with Tehran or Washington wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-… via @WSJ
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Sent by Treasury secretary Bessent, top official Jonathan Burke travelled to Oman, the UAE, Turkey and the UK. Soon after, governments there started to crackdown on Iranian banks and airlines.
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After the U.S. blockade, Iran vowed to push trade overland. But on the ground, hundreds of truckers are stuck at Iran’s land borders with its neighbors, throttling its economy. wsj.com/world/middle-east/ir… via @WSJ @benoitfaucon and Hamraz Bayan
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Long lines at gas stations. Strikes by truckers. A government struggling to maintain subsidies. The economic fallout from the war is adding to the pain facing ordinary Iranians. wsj.com/world/middle-east/ir… via @WSJ
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An Iranian airline accused of ferrying cash, weapons and personnel for the regime’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is expanding its footprint, despite more than a decade under U.S. sanctions wsj.com/world/middle-east/ir… via @WSJ
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Freeing more American citizens “could be a tool if Iran wants to descalate and seek an off-ramp to hostilities," says hostages advocate Stacia George. “The U.S. will see any prisoners’ release as a confidence-building measure.” wsj.com/world/middle-east/ir… via @WSJ
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