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Month: October 2017

Iranian Authorities Bar Reformist Ex-President Khatami From Attending Meeting

RFL/RE - Reports from Iran say the authorities have prevented former reformist President Mohammad Khatami from leaving his residence in Tehran…

U.S. Urges UN Council To Address Iran’s ‘Destabilizing’ Conduct In Middle East

RFL/RE - U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged the UN Security Council to follow the United States' example and address what…

Iran’s Guards say missile programme will accelerate despite pressure

Al-Arabia - Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that the country’s ballistic missile programme would accelerate despite pressure from…

Saudi Arabia: Iran has used lifting of sanctions to destabilize the region

Al-Arabia - The Political Coordinator of the Saudi Mission in the United Nations, spokeswoman Manal Hassan Radwan, in her speech on…

At UN, US Envoy Cites ‘Laundry List’ of Iranian Bad Behavior

VOA — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley lashed out Wednesday at Iran for what she called a “laundry list” of bad behavior,…

Husband: Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Jobs and Britishness “Exaggerated” to Use Her as “Bargaining Chip”

CHRI - Iranian judicial officials are misrepresenting Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's past jobs and her British citizenship to persuade the UK government to…

Reformist Political Activist Turned Refugee Briefly Arrested Upon Return to Iran

CHRI - A reformist political activist who fled Iran in 2011 after years of being harassed by the Intelligence Ministry was…

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Forcefully Rejects Espionage Charges Against Nuclear Team Aide

CHRI - A few days after an Iranian Appeals Court upheld a five-year prison sentence against a member of Iran’s nuclear…

IRAN IS MISLEADING THE PUBLIC BY CLAIMING IMMINENT EXECUTION OF TEENAGE BOY IS “LAWFUL”

Amnesty - The Iranian authorities are making a mockery of juvenile justice and misleading the Iranian public by claiming that the…

Khamenei: Iran won’t be first to abandon nuclear deal

Al-Monitor - In his first reaction to US President Donald Trump’s Oct. 13 speech on the new policy toward Tehran, Iran’s Supreme…