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The White House has called on the US Congress to investigate whether the Obama administration wiretapped President Trump before the election. Former director of national intelligence James Clapper has already denied wiretapping. The accusation first emerged last week in a tweet from Trump himself.
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President Donald Trump's new travel ban order will temporarily halt entries to the United States for people from six Muslim-majority countries who are seeking new visas. (March 6)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new travel ban for people from six Muslim-majority countries seeking new visas.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new version of his controversial travel ban, aiming to withstand court challenges while still barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program. (March 6)
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Secretary Tillerson says new Executive Order "is a vital measure for strengthening our national security."
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A referendum vote that could increase the powers of Turkey's president, is threatening to cause a diplomatic row with Germany. That's after Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit out at authorities there for blocking several rallies supporting him.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions says President Trump's new executive order that bans immigration from six Muslim-majority countries will protect Americans, including lawful immigrants.
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Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly (left), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (right) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the revised executive order President Trump signed on Monday that bans six countries from entering the U.S. Iraq, once part of the banned countries, has now been removed. Photo: AP
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the revised executive order President Trump signed on Monday that bans six countries from entering the U.S. Iraq, once part of the banned countries, has now been removed. Photo: AP
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This morning, President Trump signed a new executive order implementing a temporary travel ban from six Muslim majority countries and a temporary suspension of the Refugee Admission Program. The order replaces the January 27 executive order whose implementation was halted by multiple federal courts last month. In a joint press conference, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced the order.
Substantively, the new order is similar in objective to the original, but the revised order contains many of the revisions that Peter Margulies anticipated on Lawfare last week, revisions that significantly soften it around the edges. The new order is crafted far more carefully in an obvious attempt to avoid legal challenges that halted implementation of the January order, so let’s start with what has changed. The new order:
- no longer includes Iraq, noting that the U.S. and Iraqi governments have reached agreement about enhanced screening from Iraqi airports.
- specifies whom it does not affect: foreign nationals with valid visas, including those who had valid visas prior to the signing, and refugees whose travel to the U.S. has already been scheduled with the Department of State.
- no longer singles out Syria for “indefinite” suspension of the refugee program; instead, the temporary suspension of the program applies to all countries.
- eliminates any preference for religious minorities.
- delays implementation for ten days, until March 16, 2017, presumably to avoid a situation in which people engaged in ongoing travel receive a very rude shock at a U.S. port of entry.
- authorizes consular officials to waive the travel restriction on a case-by-case basis if the official determines the restriction would pose an undue hardship and that the entry would not pose a national security threat and would be in the national interest.
- authorizes the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to jointly waive the temporary refugee restriction on a similar determination that accepting the refugee would not pose a national security threat and would be in the national interest.
- has a conspicuously more controlled and traditional rollout, including a fact sheet summary and FAQs that explain the order’s impact for certain foreign nationals.
- contains noticeably toned-down language in the policy section, eliminating the section describing “those who would place violent ideologies over American law.”
The New Executive Order
The new Executive Order bans travel from six Muslim majority countries—Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen—for 90 days. It suspends the Refugee Admission Program (USRAP) for all countries for 120 days, and imposes a cap of 50,000 refugees in 2017 once the program resumes.
- Section 1: “Policy and Purpose”
The new order highlights the policy of improving visa-issuance and USRAP protocols and procedures. Section 1 defends the legality of the January order, including the refugee program preference for religious minorities, noting that the preference applies to refugees from all countries, including Muslim-minority countries.
Likewise, the new order offers a paragraph on each country explaining why additional procedures are needed to avoid “the risk of erroneously permitting entry of a national of one of these countries who intends to commit terrorist acts or otherwise harm the national security of the United States,” highlighting, for example, ongoing conflicts in each state or state sponsoring of terrorism. This extended section is clearly an effort to supply an administrative record to which government litigators may demand deference from the courts.
In a key change, the new executive order exempts Iraq from the temporary travel ban. It explains that Iraq is a “special case,” that the Iraqi government is a key ally in the fight against ISIS, and that the Iraqi government has taken steps to enhance screening. While “granting admission to Iraqi nationals should be subjected to additional scrutiny” under Section 4 of the order to identify applicants with possible ties to ISIS, Iraq is not subject to the 90-day travel ban.
Finally, Section 1 explains that the new order specifically addresses the Ninth Circuit’s concerns with the original order, “expressly exclud[ing] from the suspensions categories of aliens that have prompted judicial concerns” and clarifying other issues.
- Section 2: “Temporary Suspension of Entry for Nationals of Countries of Particular Concern During Review Period”
Section 2 directs Homeland Security to conduct a review and produce a report to the President and other key cabinet-level officials on what additional information would be needed from each country to determine whether a possible entrant poses a threat. The Secretary of State is then to request that the countries provide that additional information within 50 days. The restriction will be lifted or reevaluated based on whether the Secretary of Homeland Security is able to certify either that the country provided the requested information or that it has a adequate plan to provide it.
While that review is being conducted, the order imposes a 90-day suspension on entry for nationals of those six countries, subject to exceptions and limitations in sections 3 and 12 of the order. The Secretaries of Homeland Security or of State or the Attorney General may submit additional countries to the President similar treatment and review.
- Section 3: “Scope and Implementation”
Section 3 provides the key differences from the original order, specifically exempting foreign nationals who had valid visas prior to the January 27 original order or who have a valid visas prior to March 16. It also specifies categories of foreign nationals to whom the order does not apply: U.S. green card holders, dual citizens traveling on passports issued by a non-covered country, foreign nationals already admitted to the United States, those traveling on diplomatic passports, and refugees and asylees already settled here.
Section 3 opens a significant loophole for individual consular officials to issue visas at their sole discretion notwithstanding the order. If a consular official or U.S. Customs and Border Patrol determines that denying the visa would cause an undue hardship and that its issuance would not pose a national security threat and would be in the national interest, the consular official may issue the visa. The order lists factors that may be relevant for such a waiver, including, for example, significant prior contacts with the United States or purposes such as business travel or urgent medical need, but leaves the ultimate determination entirely to the consular official.
- Section 4: “Additional Inquiries Related to Nationals of Iraq”
Instead of having Iraq covered by the travel ban, the order specifies additional screening considerations for travelers from Iraq, including whether the applicant have connections with ISIS.
- Section 5: “Implementing Uniform Screening and Vetting Standards for All Immigration Programs”
The order instructs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence to develop uniform vetting standards, create a database of identity documents, and development mechanisms to identify fraudulent attempts at entry.
- Section 6: “Realignment of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for Fiscal Year 2017”
Section 6 suspends the U.S. refugee program and delays all decisions on pending refugee applications for 120 days, while Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence review the procedures for identifying refugee threats. Unlike the prior order, the section specifically exempts refugees who have already formally scheduled travel to the United States with the State Department. Like the old version, the order implements a 50,000 refugee cap for 2017 once the program resumes, which is down from the 110,000 refugees the Obama administration had planned to admit this year. Unlike the old version, it does not treat Syria differently from other countries.
- Sections 7-10: “Terrorism Grounds for Inadmissibility, Biometric Entry-Exit Tracking System, and Visa Interviews and Reciprocity”
Section 7 directs consideration of additional directives or guidance from State and Homeland Security on the terrorism grounds for inadmissibility under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Section 8 directs Homeland Security to expedite the completion of a biometric entry-exit tracking system and submit progress reports.
Section 9 suspends the Visa Interview Waiver Program, making in-person interviews mandatory for all nonimmigrant visas, subject only to statutory exemptions. The order likewise directs the Secretary of State to expand the staffing of the Consular Fellows Program to conduct these interviews while avoiding significant increases in wait times.
Section 10 directs a review of all nonimmigrant visa reciprocity agreements with foreign states to match fees and other treatment of U.S. citizens applying for nonimmigrant visas (such as work visas) in foreign countries.
- Section 11: “Transparency and Data Collections”
Section 11 primarily directs the relevant agencies to periodically report to the public on the number of terrorism-related offenses, convictions, and removals, radicalization in the U.S. of foreign-born immigrants, and gender-based violence perpetrated by foreign nationals in the U.S.
- Sections 12-16: Enforcement, Revocation of the Original Executive Order, Effective Date
The final sections of the order reiterate various exemptions, including refugees or foreign nationals who are already lawfully present in the U.S., establish an effective date of 12:01am on March 16, 2017, and formally revoke the January order.
The Presidential Memorandum
In addition to the new executive order, President Trump also issued a presidential memorandum today directing the Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Justice, as well as other agencies, to develop additional procedures to enhance screening of all entrants to the U.S., and to “rigorously enforce all existing grounds of inadmissibility and to ensure compliance with related laws after admission.” (This statement may suggest an intent to more rigorously enforce standards like the “public charge” law, the subject of a leaked executive order proposal from January.) The memorandum directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to issue periodic public reports on the number and country of origin of immigrants admitted to the U.S.; the number of changes to immigration status of noncitizens by class of admission and nationality; the cost of the refugee program across federal, state, and local jurisdictions; and the number of refugees who are living in countries of first asylum for the same cost as it would take the United States to support those refugees, “taking into account the full lifetime cost of Federal, State, and local benefits.”
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Peter Margulies argued that the reported changes to the order, which in fact materialized today, “place the administration in a materially better legal position.”
Nora Ellingsen analyzed the leaked Department of Homeland Security assessment that does not support White House assertions about threats from the restricted countries. (For more, see Nora’s prior piece on what the data really show about the threat from these countries.)
Susan and Ben responded to concerns of a group of Foreign Service officers about whether the Administration was considering all relevant information, including the Consular Consolidated Database, to inform an honest risk assessment in crafting a travel restriction.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump does not accept the contention of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that Mr. Trump falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had him wiretapped, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Mr. Comey had asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject Mr. Trump’s assertions. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is untrue and must be corrected, but the department has not released any such statement.
A White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked early Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether Mr. Trump accepted Mr. Comey’s contention. “I don’t think he does,” she said.
“I think he firmly believes that this is a story line that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets,” Ms. Sanders said. She went on to cite several news reports about the F.B.I.’s investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.
George Stephanopoulos, the ABC News host interviewing Ms. Sanders, pointed out that the articles Ms. Sanders cited did not back up Mr. Trump’s claims that Mr. Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped the month before the election.
Mr. Trump started the controversy on Saturday when he made a series of posts on Twitter that said he had just learned that Mr. Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower in October.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” Mr. Trump said. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Mr. Trump added: “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
The White House has not officially said what led Mr. Trump to make the claims.
But administration officials have acknowledged that it was primarily based on unverified claims by Breitbart News and conservative talk radio hosts that secret warrants were issued authorizing the tapping of the phones of Mr. Trump and his aides at Trump Tower in New York.
On Sunday, the White House said in a statement that Mr. Trump had demanded Congress investigate whether Mr. Obama had abused the power of federal law enforcement agencies. The White House said at the time that it would have no further comment on the matter.
Ms. Sanders said on Monday that she did not know whether Mr. Trump had been in contact with Mr. Comey. “I don’t know that he has gotten a firm denial from the F.B.I.,” she said.
Mr. Stephanopoulos asked again whether Mr. Trump accepted Mr. Comey’s contention.
“The president wants the truth to come out to the American people, and he is asking that it be done through the House Intelligence Committee and that that be the process that we go through,” Ms. Sanders said.
Some Republicans said on Monday that spying was a hallmark of Mr. Obama’s administration, claiming that during his time in office the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups. Other Republicans defended the impartiality of the Justice Department and F.B.I.
“I don’t think the F.B.I. is the Obama team, and I don’t think the men and women who are career prosecutors at D.O.J. belong to any team other than a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales,” said Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, in an interview on Fox News.
“We have certain tools this country needs to keep us safe — and it is great and wise and prudent and legal for those tools to be used lawfully and appropriately,” Mr. Gowdy said, referring to court-approved wiretapping. “If they are not used lawfully and appropriately, there is a paper trail and we will be able to find it out.”
Mr. Gowdy — who headed the committee that investigated the 2012 attacks on American outposts in Benghazi, Libya — said that with the Obama administration out of office, “any information that the current Department of Justice has that suggests the previous Department of Justice acted inappropriately — they are welcome to release it.”
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President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.While citing no evidence to support his explosive allegation, Trump said in a series of five tweets sent Saturday morning that Obama was “wire tapping” his New York offices before the election in a move he compared to McCarthyism. “Bad (or sick) guy!” he said of his predecessor, adding that the surveillance resulted in “nothing found.”
An Obama spokesman gave an emphatic, but noticeably limited response: “A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
With no comment yet from the FBI or Justice Department, the possibility remains that Trump was under some sort of surveillance in the course of an intelligence investigation. A showing of probable cause to a court would have been required to obtain a wiretap of the type Trump alleged.
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In the course of less than a week we’ve gone from “Trump presidency on the rocks” to “What a normal speech!” to “How many Trump associates had contact with the Russians, and why did the lie about it?” to “Trump was bugged, really?!?”
Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. on March 5 denied that President Trump's 2016 campaign was wiretapped while senators of both parties weighed in on the allegations. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. on March 5 denied that President Trump’s 2016 campaign was wiretapped while senators of both parties weighed in on the allegations. Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. denies that President Trump’s 2016 campaign was wiretapped. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
There are several explanations — not necessarily mutually exclusive — for the latest outburst from the president.
First, he is increasingly out of touch with reality. Just as he obsessed over the crowd size at his inauguration and the fictional illegal voters upward of 3 million, Trump’s mammoth ego cannot take the daily drumbeat of attacks and accusations. When adversity strikes — as it did with new allegations concerning Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was forced to recuse himself from any campaign-related investigation — he becomes unhinged and paranoid. He can stick to a teleprompter speech for an hour, but soon reverts to form.
A variation on the first possibility would be that Trump correctly realizes the intelligence community has a good deal more information on what contacts his associates had with Russians than he does. A New York Times story last week confirmed that the intelligence community also has intercepts of Russian officials discussing their contacts with Trump associates. Trump, under this theory, is panicked. An exaggerated, unsupported claim from a right-wing provocateur and gadfly Mark Levin that Trump was directly wiretapped is enough to set him off into a Twitter frenzy. As they said about Richard Nixon, even paranoids have enemies.
Another explanation is that Trump, as he does when things go wrong (the Sessions recusal, disarray on tax and health-care legislation, accusations about his foreign holdings), deliberately creates distractions. He’d rather the media chatter about whether he is sane than focus on the need to obtain his taxes to determine what connections he and his family have to Russia. (Recall that last week a story surfaced that Donald Trump Jr. was paid handsomely for a speech in France for a pal of the Putin oligarchs.)
And finally, it is possible that he is right that Trump communications were under investigation — but only up to a point. We go back to a story from late October 2016 in which FBI officials allegedly investigated a connection between computer servers owned by the Trump Organization and the Russian Alpha Bank. The New York Times reported that there could be an “innocuous explanation” for 2,700 so-called look-up messages sent from Alpha servers to Trump’s. This does not necessarily mean the FBI or anyone else was “wiretapping” Trump Towers, but we have yet to find out the extent of its investigation and whether, for example, the FBI discovered additional ties between Trump associates and Kremlin allies.
Apart from the server story, news reports have suggested, as a TIME story did, that “as major banks in America stopped lending him money following his many bankruptcies, the Trump organization was forced to seek financing from non-traditional institutions. Several had direct ties to Russian financial interests in ways that have raised eyebrows.” (Trump denies he has any ties to Russia. “I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia,” he said recently, leaving open the possibility that he and/or his sons have ties to Russians operating outside of Russia.)
After Trump’s Twitter outburst some lawmakers, like Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), chose to take him “seriously,” that is, to call for proof of his claims. Others argued that his accusations only underscored the need for a definitive, independent investigation conducted by either a commission with subpoena power or a special prosecutor named by the deputy attorney general (Sessions, who has recused himself, could not do so). Realizing their error in inviting more scrutiny, Sean Spicer tried to walk back the allegations Sunday morning. He called for Congress — which is already investigating Trump’s Russia connection — to look into improper surveillance during the campaign. He almost begged the press to drop it, saying that no further remarks on the topic would be forthcoming. Good luck with that.
Trump inadvertently emphasized that at the core this is about whether the intelligence community has discovered the president of the United States is compromised. That cannot very well be left solely to congressional partisans or to a Justice Department that reports to him.
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Tehran, March 5, AZERTAC
An official welcome ceremony has been held for President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Tehran.
President Ilham Aliyev arrived at Sadabad Palace accompanied by the cavalry.
A guard of honor was arranged for the Azerbaijani President in a square in front of Sadabad Palace decorated with national flags of the two countries.
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani greeted President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
National anthems of Iran and Azerbaijan were played.
The chief of the guard of honor reported to the President of Azerbaijan.
The heads of state reviewed the guard of honor.
The Presidents posed for official photos.
State and government officials of Iran were introduced to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, while members of the Azerbaijani delegation were introduced to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed relations with neighboring Azerbaijan as "friendly, brotherly and strategic," saying they share close views on regional issues. Tehran-Baku ties "have made considerable progress in the past three years," Rouhani said at a joint news conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev who arrived in Tehran Sunday for a one-day visit.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (R) welcomes his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev
Tehran - March 5, 2017 (Photo by IRNA)
President Rouhani also said the two Muslim countries view terrorism as a major threat, and share common views on the need to fight terrorists in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. "We see terrorism, which is unfortunately rooted in the Wahhabi and Salafi ideology, as a big threat to the region and believe the roots of this ideology need to be dried up," the president said.
"On the issue of Syria and Iraq, we share common views and hope efforts by Iran, Turkey and Russia will bear fruit," Rouhani said, adding the ultimate solution for Syria has to be political.
"Iran believes the territorial integrity of countries must be respected and regional problems resolved through political means and dialog."
Aliyev said political relations between Iran and Azerbaijan were "excellent" while economic cooperation between the two countries had made considerable progress.
His visit to Tehran is the third in the past three years during which he met with President Rouhani eight times, Aliyev said, adding cordial bilateral ties are rooted in cultural, historical and religious commonalities.
"These visits show relations between the two countries are progressing proudly."
"On the issue of Syria and Iraq, we share common views and hope efforts by Iran, Turkey and Russia will bear fruit," Rouhani said, adding the ultimate solution for Syria has to be political.
"Iran believes the territorial integrity of countries must be respected and regional problems resolved through political means and dialog."
Aliyev said political relations between Iran and Azerbaijan were "excellent" while economic cooperation between the two countries had made considerable progress.
His visit to Tehran is the third in the past three years during which he met with President Rouhani eight times, Aliyev said, adding cordial bilateral ties are rooted in cultural, historical and religious commonalities.
"These visits show relations between the two countries are progressing proudly."
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (L) and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani
at a joint news conference in Tehran on March 5, 2017. (Photo by IRNA)
Bilateral trade grew 70% in 2016 following the implementation of bilateral agreements, Aliyev said as he cited 18 MoUs signed in recent years.
"Today, two more documents were signed which is a good basis for strengthening relations," he added.
Aliyev also hailed Iranian firms for investing in Azerbaijan, citing Iran's stakes in Shah Deniz which is Azerbaijan's largest gas field in the Caspian Sea as well as oil drilling operations.
Rouhani said Iran is ready for swapping oil and oil products with Azerbaijan. He also touched on transit cooperation, saying their recent completion of a rail road linking the Iranian city of Rasht to Astara in Azerbaijan had marked an important step in this regard.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev meets Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei
Tehran - March 5, 2017. (Photo by IRNA)
In their talks, the two sides also discussed cooperation on environmental issues as well as the Caspian Sea legal regime. The sea is shared by Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
"Legal issues in the Caspian Sea require the consensus of the five countries. In this context, cooperation, consultation and negotiation between Iran and Azerbaijan is very important," Rouhani said.
Aliyev said Azerbaijan attaches great importance to the South-North Corridor, which stretches from the Indian Ocean to Russia, China, Central Asia and East Europe.
He also thanked Tehran for its efforts to resolve the Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Iran has repeatedly announced readiness to mediate between the two sides. Rouhani said the Islamic Republic believes all regional problems, including the Karabakh conflict, should be resolved thorough dialog.
"Legal issues in the Caspian Sea require the consensus of the five countries. In this context, cooperation, consultation and negotiation between Iran and Azerbaijan is very important," Rouhani said.
Aliyev said Azerbaijan attaches great importance to the South-North Corridor, which stretches from the Indian Ocean to Russia, China, Central Asia and East Europe.
He also thanked Tehran for its efforts to resolve the Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Iran has repeatedly announced readiness to mediate between the two sides. Rouhani said the Islamic Republic believes all regional problems, including the Karabakh conflict, should be resolved thorough dialog.
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Concurrent with the visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Tehran, the 10-kilometer Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan) railway line project began its trial operation successfully on Sunday. With the commissioning of this railroad as well as the completion of Rasht-Astara railway line project, the Islamic Republic of Iran will be connected to Europe's rail network via Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan will get direct access to the Persian Gulf.
Concurrent with the visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Tehran, the 10-kilometer Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan) railway line project began its trial operation successfully on Sunday. With the commissioning of this railroad as well as the completion of Rasht-Astara railway line project, the Islamic Republic of Iran will be connected to Europe's rail network via Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan will get direct access to the Persian Gulf.
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BAKU (Sputnik) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday he discussed with his Azerbaijan’s counterpart Ilham Aliyev the trilateral format of cooperation between Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia.
"My colleague and I discussed the trilateral formats of cooperation between Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia; Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan as well as Azerbaijan, Iran and Georgia. We also discussed regional issues," Rouhani said at the joint press conference with Aliyev in Tehran, as quoted by the Azerbaijan Press Agency.
Speaking about the conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, Rouhani pointed out the need to respect the territorial integrity of all countries.
"Conflicts must be solved through peaceful means," Rouhani said.
Aliyev arrived in Iran earlier on Sunday. The parties have already signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation.
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