Al-Monitor – In order to sell the nuclear deal to domestic constituencies and the world, Iran and the P5+1 countries overpromised the benefits of the deal. But, despite public denials by those officials that the nuclear deal would lead to further negotiations over significant geopolitical issues, it did not stop a myriad of analysts and deal skeptics from speculating about …

theartnewspaper – The 93-year-old doyenne of Iranian art, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, has donated more than 50 of her works to a new museum dedicated to her oeuvre in Tehran. The Monir Museum, which opens tomorrow (15 December) in a 19th-century former palace and gardens, is the first institution in Iran devoted to a single female artist. “I can leave this …

Al-Arabia – The House of Representatives approved a draft resolution stating that the Treasury Department is required to publish a list of the assets of Iranian leaders, more specifically the Supreme Leader of Iran,  Ali Khamenei.

Al-Arabia – US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday at a press conference before the Security Council in New York that Iran’s behavior in the Middle East is getting worse, fanning flames of conflict.

RFL/RE – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will present what she says is “irrefutable evidence” that Iran has violated its international obligations at a press conference on December 14, the U.S. mission at the UN said. Haley will discuss what the mission called Iran’s “ongoing destabilizing activities in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.” The …

RFL/RE – The price for Iranians of heading abroad could triple if the government’s new budget proposal is approved.

RFL/RE – Turkish police have summoned an FBI official over the testimony of a former Turkish police investigator in a high-profile U.S. court case involving alleged violations of sanctions on Iran, Turkish news agencies reported. Turkish media reported on December 13 that a Federal Bureau of Investigation representative at the U.S. Embassy in Istanbul was summoned after Huseyin Korkmaz testified …

Al-Arabia – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States is working with its allies and its European partners to counter Iran’s destructive and destabilizing policies in the region and its support with weapons to terrorist organizations in the region. “What worries us most is the ballistic missile programs, destabilizing Yemen and exporting weapons to terrorist organizations such …

Iran Human Rights –  Two prisoners were hanged in public in Khorasgan Square in Isfahan on the charge of murdering a police officer. According to a report by the state-run Jam News, on the morning of Wednesday December 13, two prisoners were hanged in public in Khorasegan Square in Isfahan. The two prisoners were arrested and sentenced to death on …

CHRI – Mohammad Saber Malek-Raeisi, imprisoned in Iran for the last eight years solely because of his brother’s alleged links with a terrorist organization, has gone on hunger strike in Ardabil Central Prison in northwestern Iran. His mother, Golbibi Malek-Raeisi, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that she has been informed that her son would be released …