Al-Arabia – Dedicating his first foreign policy speech to the grave subject of Iran, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined the Trump administration’s new strategy vis-à-vis Iran on Monday, coming shortly after President Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Obama-era nuclear deal. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Secretary Pompeo vividly explained how the US …

Al-Arabia – The spokesperson of the Arab coalition forces in Yemen, Col. Turki Al-Malki said on Monday that more than 85% of Yemen has been liberated as legitimate forces have advanced on all battle fronts, while confusion has hit Houthi ranks. Malki said during a press conference that a Turkish ship was recently attacked by missiles in front of the …

VOA -Iranian factory workers have resumed a blockade of the country’s main north-south railway line as part of a protest against labor conditions in a western Iranian city.

Amnesty -Iranian Kurdish prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, sentenced to death in January 2018, is at imminent risk of execution. The Office for Implementation of Sentences has said that his execution will be carried out soon after the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan on 15 June. He was convicted and sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial. http://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1384572018ENGLISH.pdf

Al-Monitor – The US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been received negatively by much of the international community, with the exception of Israel and some Arab states.

Al-Monitor – As Iran and Europe scramble to save the Iranian nuclear deal, the EU’s commissioner for energy and climate traveled to Iran to meet with Iranian officials. Miguel Arias Canete tweeted a picture of his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and wrote about the need to “defend and fully implement” the Iran deal. He added that …

PayvandNews – Some three million Iranians have organ donor cards and some 10 percent have signed online consent forms for organ donation, Farahnaz Sadeq-Beigi, head of organ procurement program in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, a national research institute for tuberculosis and lung diseases, has said.

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington will impose “the strongest sanctions in history [on Iran] once they come into full force” and that the “sting of sanctions will only grow more painful if the regime does not change its course.”

Radiofarda – Despite Iran’s Intelligence Ministry insisting there is no proof to suggest that the environmentalists who have been detained were involved in espionage against their homeland, their attorney sees no breakthrough in his clients’ situation.

Iran’s Parliament (Majles) has discussed four regulatory bills at a closed-door session also attended by “a few senior security and executive officials” on Sunday May 20.