Conservative presidential candidate paints bleak picture of Iran
Al-monitor - In the first televised interview of the six Iranian candidates approved to run in the presidential election, Ebrahim Raisi, the custodian…
Month: April 2017
Foreign tourist spent $32B in Iran in last four years
PayvandNews - Foreign tourists have spent some $32 billion in Iran over the past four years, said an official with…
Iran launches national fiber optic connectivity plan
PayvandNews - Iran has launched an ambitious project to connect houses to a nationwide fiber optic network - what the…
Ten Iranian Guards At Border With Pakistan Reported Killed By Sunni Militants
RFL/RE - Ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan…
Israel Wants U.S. To Ensure Iranian Forces Don’t Stay In Syria, Minister Tells Reuters
RFL/RE - Israel is seeking an "understanding" with the Trump administration that Iran must not be allowed to establish a…
Murky details emerge of the deal that Obama struck with Iran
Al-Arabia - More than a year ago on January 17, 2016, then President Barack Obama announced on TV the nuclear…
Iran’s Other Elections: Local Council Applicants Subjected to Arbitrary Vetting
CHRI - In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran's elections…
Why did over 1,600 Iranians sign up to run for president?
Al-monitor - Over 1,600 Iranians showed up at the Interior Ministry April 11-15 to sign up to run in the…
Is Putin interfering in Iran’s presidential elections?
Al-monitor - On April 20, Iranian conservative presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi met with visiting Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov — an encounter that…
Iran and P5+1 Joint Commission hold meeting in Vienna
PayvandNews - The seventh meeting of the Iran-P5+1 Joint Commission, which monitors the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal between…