Iran-HRM – Parvaneh Salahshori, the head of Majlis’s (parliament) women’s fraction said: “Statistics show that during last year 37,000 girls have married while under 15. In this time interval 2000 women have either divorced or become widows.” Iran-HRM – Parvaneh Salahshori, the head of Majlis’s (parliament) women’s fraction said: “Statistics show that during last year 37,000 girls have married while …

Iran-HRM – Baneh’s intelligence Department, summoned and threatened bazaar shopkeepers on strike, to end the recent Baneh strike. An informed source said: “Intelligence forces threatened the shopkeepers that they have to end their strike as soon as possible.”

Iran-HRM – On Wednesday morning, May 9, 2018, a prisoner was executed at Gohardasht (Rajaee Shahr) Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran. The prisoner convicted of intentional murder and sentenced to execution (nemesis) is identified as “Reza Hamidi”. Reza was transferred from ward ten of this prison to solitary confinement on May 7th. An informed source said: “Reza was condemned …

Iran-HRM – Pishin Dam in Sarbaz Township, south of Sistan & Baluchistan Province dried out due to draught and decrease in the amount of rain.

RFL/RE  – Iran has strongly condemned Israel’s missile strikes on Iranian targets inside Syria.

RFL/RE – The White House wants UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites to continue, despite President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 agreement that authorized those inspections, U.S. officials have said. Days after Trump walked away from the deal and its mandate for rigorous scrutiny of Iranian facilities, senior administration officials said on May 10 that he wants monitoring to …

Al-Arabia – Having returned from North Korea on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will begin talks in coming days to persuade allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to press Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear and missile programs, US officials said.

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit China, Russia and Europe over the coming days for talks on salvaging the nuclear deal after the US withdrawal, his spokesman said Friday.

VOA – The United States and the United Arab Emirates acted Thursday to disrupt a currency exchange network under which they said hundreds of millions of dollars had been transferred to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Qods Force to fund their insurgent operations in the Middle East. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned nine Iranian individuals and entities it said were involved in transferring …

VOA – Western news agencies say the Iranian rial has weakened significantly against the dollar in black market trading following the U.S. decision to exit the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.