RFL/RE – The United States, Britain, and France are pushing the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for failing to prevent its missiles from falling into the hands of Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Iran’s Zarif Calls Netanyahu Speech At Munich Conference ‘Cartoonish Circus’
RFL/RE – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Israel’s prime minister’s fiercely critical remarks about Iran to a high-profile security conference do not deserve “the dignity of a response.”
Read More »Sweden Confirms Citizenship For Iranian Scientist Facing Death Penalty
RFL/RE – The Swedish Foreign Ministry On February 17 confirmed that it has granted citizenship to a Stockholm-based scientist who is being held in Iran and faces a death sentence.
Read More »Netanyahu Calls Iran ‘Greatest Threat To Our World’
RFL/RE– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran represents the “greatest threat to our world,” urging the international community to confront a “regime” in Tehran that “threatens peace.”
Read More »‘Do not test Israel,’ Netanyahu tells Iran, brandishing drone ‘piece’
Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran on Saturday over aggressions by what he called Iran and its “proxies” in Syria, while showing what he claimed was a piece of an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli airspace.
Read More »Iran and India Agree to Lease Part of Chabahar Port to New Delhi
VOA – India and Iran sealed nine agreements during a visit by the Iranian President to New Delhi including a key accord that leases operational control of part of the Iranian port of Chabahar to New Delhi for 18 months.
Read More »Report: Plane Crashes in Southern Iran, Killing All 66 Aboard
VOA — An Iranian commercial plane crashed Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported.
Read More »EU ready to negotiate Iran’s joining Southern Gas Corridor initiative
PayvandNews – European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic said EU is ready to discuss Iran’s joining to the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) with all partners of the project, IRNA reported on Thursday.
Read More »Royal Portraits From 19th-Century Iran Will Go on View at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler in Washington, DC
PayvandNews -After-hours Special Preview of “The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran” Feb. 23
Read More »Firebrand Cleric Says No Room for Referendum In A ‘Religious Democracy’
RFL/RE – Mashhad’s firebrand Friday prayer leader hardline Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda says there is no room in the Islamic Republic for a referendum.
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