Radiofarda – The saber-rattling over the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, has intensified between the two rival camps in Iran.

Radiofarda – A controversial proposal to divide the ancient city of Kazeroon into two separate entities has been shelved for the time being, Iran’s Interior Ministry announced May 17.

Iran-HRM – The kid daughter of Iranian political prisoner Avisha Jalaledin, a member of Iran’s Dervish Gonabadi community held in Qarchak Prison south east of Tehran, is being deprived of visiting her mother.

Iran-HRM – Young inmate commits Suicide at Zahedan Central Prison after being transferred to quarantine section.  

Iran-HRM – In protest to the decision of Rajaie Shahr prison’s observing judge as not to endorse a leave for Ali Ashraf Parvaneh, serving for 18 years, he went on hunger strike on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Habibi, a member of the board of directors of the Teacher’s Trade Association of Tehran who was beaten and arrested on May 10 Tehran’s teachers gathering, has been held in the Great Tehran Penitentiary without access to legal representation.

Al-Arabia – If you were born and raised in Saudi Arabia in the 1980’s like I was it was palpably clear what the hardliners in Iran were; a malevolent force orchestrating some of the world’s most egregious terrorist acts who would stop at nothing to reach their religious and political goals.

Al-Arabia – EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete arrived in Tehran on Saturday to present plans for continuing oil and gas purchases and protect European companies despite renewed US sanctions on Iran.

Al-Arabia – In comments published Friday, Russian presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev confirmed that President Vladimir Puttin’s remarks on the need to withdraw foreign troops from Syria had implied Iranian forces and Hezbollah militia fighters as well as Turkish and American troops.

VOA – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will outline a “diplomatic road map” next week that he hopes will convince European and other allies to apply pressure on Iran and force it back to the negotiating table, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.