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No Future US Government Can Prevent Iran Oil Exports, Minister Says 

A street mural of the Iranian flag in Tehran in October 2017. (AFP via Getty Images)
A street mural of the Iranian flag in Tehran in October 2017. (AFP via Getty Images)
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No Future US Government Can Prevent Iran Oil Exports, Minister Says 

A street mural of the Iranian flag in Tehran in October 2017. (AFP via Getty Images)
A street mural of the Iranian flag in Tehran in October 2017. (AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian oil exports will continue regardless of who is elected as the next US president, Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji said on Wednesday, amid concerns that a Donald Trump presidency could curb Iranian crude sales.

"Whatever government comes to power in the United States will not be able to prevent Iranian oil exports," Owji said in comments quoted by Iran's official news agency IRNA.

In 2018, then-President Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear pact with Iran and re-imposed sanctions which hurt Iran's oil sector, with production dropping to 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd).

US President Joe Biden took office in 2021 and since then Iran has managed to raise output to 3.5 million bpd while tripling exports, according to Owji.

Iran has expanded oil trade with China.

Iran will elect a new president on June 28 following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May.

The US presidential election is scheduled for November 5.

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Police Arrest Teen Suspected of Stabbing Student at Sydney University

A member of the New South Wales (NSW) law enforcement team works at the scene of an alleged stabbing at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia July 2, 2024. AAP/Dan Himbrechts via REUTERS
A member of the New South Wales (NSW) law enforcement team works at the scene of an alleged stabbing at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia July 2, 2024. AAP/Dan Himbrechts via REUTERS
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Police Arrest Teen Suspected of Stabbing Student at Sydney University

A member of the New South Wales (NSW) law enforcement team works at the scene of an alleged stabbing at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia July 2, 2024. AAP/Dan Himbrechts via REUTERS
A member of the New South Wales (NSW) law enforcement team works at the scene of an alleged stabbing at the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia July 2, 2024. AAP/Dan Himbrechts via REUTERS

A 14-year-old boy dressed in military clothing was arrested after police alleged he stabbed a 22-year-old student in the neck Tuesday at the University of Sydney.

The student was taken to hospital in a stable condition. The suspect was treated in hospital for cuts and was kept for a mental health assessment, said Mark Walton, acting assistant commissioner for the New South Wales Police.
“A motive or ideology importantly has not been determined at this time,” Walton told reporters. The New South Wales Joint Counterterrorism Committee was investigating the matter, but there was no ongoing threat to the community, Walton said.

“The ideology that may be related to this young person’s activity is unknown, but I would say it’s likely to be categorized as mixed and unclear ideology. It’s certainly not a religiously related ideology,” Walton added.

Walton said the boy had worn a “camouflage defense force uniform” and left a kitchen knife at the scene, The Associated Press reported.

The boy caught a bus from the university to a nearby hospital for treatment before he was arrested, police said.
Investigators found no link between the university attack and a 16-year-old boy charged with performing a terrorist act in the stabbing of a Sydney bishop on April 15 while a church service was being streamed online. Several of his teen associates have been charged with various offences including conspiring to engage in or planning as terrorist act.