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POLICY enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon minister and the country’s special envoy
within weeks. for climate change, said this month that
Zarif suggests EU could aspirations have long been a top security ADNOC aimed to become a major producer
In Israel, where fears of Iranian nuclear
of hydrogen, a fuel seen as much cleaner than
coordinate US return to priority, media reports said ministers are oil, gas and coal.
set to meet and discuss the Iranian issue on
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nuclear deal Wednesday after a two-month hiatus,
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif suggested Iraq protesters shut down
the European Union (EU) coordinate Biden’s climate envoy southern oil firm
Washington’s return to the nuclear deal,
on Monday in an interview with CNN Kerry to work with UAE on Hundreds of Iraqi protesters on Sunday shut
International. down the Dhi Qar Oil Company in the south
“You know clearly there can be a decarbonisation of the country and prevented employees from
mechanism to basically either synchronize entering it in an effort to highlight the rising
it, or coordinate what can be done,” he told US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, John unemployment levels in the region, local
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Kerry, aims to work with the UAE as he leans media outlets reported.
EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell can on major fossil-fuel producers to lower their A protester said the move comes one week
“sort of choreograph the actions that are greenhouse gas emissions. after the deadline set for the government
needed to be taken by the United States and Kerry spoke with Sultan Al Jaber, chief and the company’s administration to meet
the actions that are needed to be taken by executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil demonstrators’ demand that authorities
Iran,” Zarif said. Co., which pumps almost all of the UAE’s oil backtrack on their decision to halt
This is a departure from Zarif’s stance in and gas. “Excellent conversation today with employment in the public sector in 2021.
a Foreign Affairs magazine article on January our long-term partner,” Kerry said in a Tweet Activists, the majority of whom are graduates
22, in which he demanded an end to sanctions posted around 11:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. of the faculties of engineering, administration,
before any Iranian action. time on Sunday. economics and technical institutes have been
US President Joe Biden has supported “Excellent conversation today with our holding a sit-in in front of the Dhi Qar Oil
renegotiating a return to the deal, but long-term partner, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Company for nearly nine months demanding
stipulated that Tehran must resume full the UAE Special Envoy for Climate. I look employment opportunities.
compliance. forward to strong & productive collaboration The Iraqi Ministry of Finance said earlier that
“The United States needs to come back on tech, investment, and regional leadership the 2021 budget, which is currently being
into compliance and Iran will be ready as we work together to ensure global action on discussed by parliament, does not include
immediately to respond,” he said. “The timing deep decarbonization,” Kerry said on Twitter. job creation in the public sector due to the
is not the issue.” The Persian Gulf is one of the biggest oil- financial crisis affecting the country.
According to Zarif, Iran’s return to these and gas-producing regions in the world. The Dhi Qar governorate includes the Nassiriya
commitments will take “less than a day.” UAE pumped 2.5 million barrels of crude and Gharaf oil fields which produce about 60
“Some may take a few days or weeks, but each day in December, the most among OPEC million standard cubic feet of gas per day as
it won’t take any longer that it would take members after Saudi Arabia and Iraq. well as about 290,000 barrels of oil.
the United States to implement executive In the past year, governments in the region According to the former Minister of Planning,
orders that are necessary to put back Iran’s have increased their focus on renewable Nuri Al-Dulaimi, the unemployment rate
oil, banking, transportation and other areas energy and lowering carbon emissions, among young adults has reached about 27 per
that President Trump violated, back into though they remain among the globe’s biggest cent.
operation,” Zarif said. polluters on a per capita basis. MEMO
US Secretary of State said on Monday The UAE is investing billions of dollars
that Iran is close enough to having enough in solar power. Jaber, who’s also a cabinet

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