Political analyst Dr. Karim Abdian Bani Saeed, the consultant of the Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz, told Al Arabiya.net that American troops in the region has started confronting the activity and deployment of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Brigade in the region’s countries via military, logistical and intelligence aid to powers that oppose Tehran.
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Capital Flight – $59 Billion Has Left Iran In Past Two Years
Radiofarda – More than $59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Islamic Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed.
Read More »Israel Pushes Hard To Force Iran Out Of Syria
Radiofarda – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is prepared to hit Iran anywhere in Syria. “We will continue to act against [Tehran’s] intention to establish a military presence in Syria across from us, not just across from the Golan Heights but anywhere in Syria,” Jerusalem Post quoted Netanyahu as saying on Wednesday, May 30. According to the Post, …
Read More »Adviser To Iran’s Top Leader Pushes Uranium Enrichment
Radiofarda – A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is proposing Iran resume its uranium enrichment in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran.
Read More »Iran Seeks OPEC Support Against U.S. Sanctions – Letter
Radiofarda – Iran’s oil minister has asked OPEC to support his country against what he called “illegal, unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions” referring to the United States sanctions on the OPEC member after the U.S. pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran.
Read More »Seven Months On, Iran Earthquake Survivors Living Without Shelter
Iran-HRM – Some 40 families living in the earthquake stricken town of Sarpol-e Zahab, west of Iran, were forced to evacuate the camps after the local governor order their water and electricity be cut off. Thousands of residents of Sarpol-e Zahab are still homeless, seven months after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck western provinces in November 2017. Over 600 …
Read More »Major Russian, Indian Energy Firms Reportedly Moving To Pull Out Of Iran
RFL/RE – The threat of U.S. sanctions has prompted Russian oil giant Lukoil to put its plans to develop projects in Iran on hold while the Indian company that owns the world’s largest oil refining complex plans to stop buying oil from Iran, Reuters reported on May 30. Both developments showed the difficulty faced by governments like Russia, France, and …
Read More »Iran offers Yemen up for negotiation
Al-Arabia – While Yemeni legitimate forces march towards Hodeida, which is the most important port for the rebels, Tehran is offering its desire to negotiate on Yemen. Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister, said they reject Washington’s demands to link the nuclear deal and their manufacturing of ballistic missiles with their influence in the region, but they are ready …
Read More »Iranian Truckers Strike for 9th Day; State Media Ignore Protest
VOA — Iranian truck drivers angered about rising business costs have maintained a strike for a ninth day in several parts of the country, defying a state media blackout on the enduring protest movement.
Read More »Iran Executions: Prisoner Might Be Sentenced to Death Based on Qassameh
Iran Human Rights – A woman who is suspected of murdering her husband might be sentenced to death based on Qassameh (Oath) because there is no concrete evidence proving her guilt. Qassameh is one of the most vulnerable ways to prove a crime (murder or physical injuries) in the Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and criminal law.
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