Reuters – The United States on Tuesday welcomed reports that the European Union was considering new sanctions on Iran and said risks remained for those who were pondering doing business with the Islamic Republic. “There continue to be ongoing risks with doing business there because the Iranians have not reformed their system,” Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and …

Radiofarda – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to take military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on Damascus civilians over the weekend, while Russia warned any such action would have “grave repercussions.”

Iran-HRM – Security forces have rounded up and detained at least 400 Iran’s Ahwazi Arabs since early April, including several youth and women, in crackdown on peaceful protests over insults by state TV against Iran’s Arab community. A good number of those arrested are under 20 years of age. Reports indicate plainclothes and intelligence agents went door to door to …

Iran-HRM – A researcher and university professor announced the absolute poverty line for a four-person urban family in 2017 as about four million tomans (1,200 USD) adding that according to calculations in recent years, 33 percent of the population of the country suffers from “absolute poverty.”

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Jazan Azizi, 21, who is detained in Zahedan Prison on charges of acting against national security was shot down his motorcycle by security forces in Qasreqnad in Gorsar Village upon his arrest despite being unarmed and was wounded in the right arm. He received an operation on his arm after two months but after seven months, he …

Iran-HRM – The governor of Nimruz said that 12,000 hectares of this city’s autumn crops were completely destroyed due to drought and water shortages. Dehmordeh said that the drinking water was supplied with great difficulty to a number of villages with water tankers. He requested that a water pump station and wells be built to provide water for livestock in …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, who has recently ended his 55-day hunger strike, is reportedly in dire conditions.

VOA — Iran unified the country’s official and open market exchange rates, state media said, after its currency, the rial, plunged to an all-time low on Monday on concerns over a return of crippling sanctions.

HRW – Free Hospitalized Peaceful Activist Golrakh Iraee © 2014 Private (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should immediately release Golrokh Iraee, a human rights defender hospitalized in Tehran, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraee was sentenced to six years in prison in April 2015 on charges solely related to her peaceful activism, after an unfair trial. Iraee was transferred to a …

CHRI – Iranian journalists and editors working for various news publications in Iran have strongly criticized the government’s decision to grant what has been described as uncensored internet access exclusively to 100 “approved” members of their profession. “This is blatant discrimination against journalists themselves and against people and journalists,” the cultural affairs editor of a monthly magazine in Tehran told …