Iran said Tuesday all neighboring states and Persian Gulf countries but one have condemned the assassination of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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China urged the United States on Tuesday to correct its mistake and lift all illegal sanctions, after Washington imposed Venezuela-related sanctions targeting a Chinese firm.

Turkey ordered the detention of 82 military personnel in an operation targeting supporters of the US-based cleric who Ankara says was behind a failed coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu News Agency said on Tuesday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said although the enemy’s sanctions were not without damage to the country’s economy and livelihoods of the people, the enemy did not achieve the main goal set for the sanctions and the economic war, which was the collapse of the Iranian economy.

Iran and Turkmenistan allowed limited transshipment of goods through a major border crossing nine months after it was closed because of movement restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, said the governor of Dargaz, in northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi.

The value of Iran’s cement product exports in the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-October 21) amounted to $163.4 million.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh supported calls within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for continued cuts to global supply of crude, saying the oil cartel is right to be cautious about the future of a market which has been deeply affected by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.