TEHRAN(Basirat): Some foreign diplomats in Iran have revealed that the US sanctions on Iran cover the country’s tourism industry as well, saying Washington has warned a number of foreign travel agencies and diplomatic missions against cooperating with the Islamic Republic in the tourism area.

TEHRAN (Basirat): An independent political and economic researcher from Los Angeles described a long-awaited mechanism to safeguard European trade ties with Tehran called INSTEX as another “Trojan Horse tool” to infiltrate into Iran’s banking, defense and energy sectors.