Bloomberg – From exile, Reza Pahlavi supports a movement to retake his homeland. But he says he doesn’t want a throne.
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Ultra-Conservative Student Group Goes After Former Chief Of Staff
Radiofarda – An ultraconservative Iranian student group has called for the return of an expropriated villa occupied by the Islamic Republic’s former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi.
Read More »Students Skip Tests In Protest Of Arrests
Radiofarda – Dozens of students at Tehran University have abstained from attending semester tests, protesting the detention of their peers during the widespread anti-establishment uprising late last December and in early January.
Read More »Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish Women Go On Hunger Strike
Iran-HRM – Female Dervish prisoners went on hunger strike following an onslaught and organized violence that was done by the prison’s guards on Wednesday at the Qarchak Prison. The Qarchak Prison’s guards, who encouraged the prisoners convicted of general crimes to attack the Dervish women, on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, in an astonishing step and on the pretext of calming …
Read More »Will Lebanon allow Iranians in without passport stamps?
Al-Arabia – Lebanese ministers will review a security agency’s decision to allow Iranians to enter at the airport without having their passports stamped, an interior ministry source said on Tuesday.
Read More »Iran says Europe’s proposals to save nuclear deal are ‘not satisfying’
Al-Arabia – Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday that Europe’s proposals to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal after the US withdrawal from the pact were not satisfying for Tehran, warning that all sides would lose if Iran is sidelined by the West, the IRNA state news agency said.
Read More »PICTURES: UAE presents evidence of Iran weapon links to Yemen’s Houthi militia
Al-Arabia – The UAE presented on Tuesday evidence of what it described as Iranian support for the Houthi militia in Yemen.
Read More »US Concerned by Iran’s Reported Arrest of Dervish Man’s Lawyer
VOA – The United States says it is “deeply concerned” by reports that Iran has arrested a lawyer who defended a religious minority member executed by Iranian authorities on Monday for allegedly killing policemen.
Read More »Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Chief Rejects Plea For Direct Talks With U.S.
RFL/RE – The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has rejected a plea from Iranian activists to broach talks with the United States to resolve longtime differences, saying they have “sided with the U.S., the enemy of the people.” “Striking an understanding with the United States means the death of the Islamic republic,” General Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted …
Read More »Iran Rejects U.S. Call For OPEC To Increase Output
RFL/RE – Iran has slammed a U.S. call for OPEC to increase production, as ministers from the oil cartel traveled to Austria for their annual meeting.
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