VOA — Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria’s war, according to a confidential document, in a bid to persuade Washington to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS – The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000 inhabitants in 2017, Iran remained the country with …

Iran Human Rights –  According to an IHR’s source, Former governor of Fasa, Mohammad Sami’pour, is one of the people who was arrested and interrogated after February 1’s meeting in Estahban. IHR’s efforts to talk to Sami’pour’s relatives were in vain. However, IHR sources stated that security forces assured that he would be released very soon; which has not occurred …

Al-Monitor – A little over two weeks ago, Iran eliminated another function of the US dollar in its internal workings in a move positioned amid yearslong plans to reduce dependency on the greenback. The consequences will be manifold and interconnected, but there are discrepancies in views concerning what will happen as a result among experts and officials.

PayvandNews – Signatories to Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers have held a new round of their periodic meetings to review its implementation amid US threats to kill the multilateral accord. Representatives from Iran, the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany convened in the Austrian city of Vienna on Friday for a meeting of the so-called Joint Comprehensive …

RFL/RE – Iranians hungry for the latest in Western gadgetry got an abrupt shock on March 15 when they were unable to access a key distribution platform for Apple-friendly software.

Radiofarda – Sons of a university professor and environmentalist who suspiciously died behind bars in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison have called upon Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pressure the Iranian authorities to allow their mother to leave Iran.

Radiofarda – Hard-line MP Javad Karimi Ghoddousi claims President Hassan Rouhani has said he is incapable of simultaneously financing both the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s regular army.

Radiofarda – US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert announced Washington’s concern over “grave conditions facing the press in Iran”, according to a statement posted on State Department’s website on March 15. Referring to this week’s discussion by the UN Human Rights Council of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Nauert underlined various …

RFL/RE – Saudi Arabia’s crown prince asserted on March 15 that the kingdom will develop nuclear weapons if Iran does, in a television interview immediately denounced by Tehran. Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015 that prohibits it from developing nuclear weapons, and beyond that. Tehran has said it has no ambition to develop such weapons of …