Al-Arabia – Iran has begun work on infrastructure to build advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility, the director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday.

VOA – Some of Iran’s most prominent lawyers have accused their government of acting unfairly by blocking the vast majority of their profession from handling national security cases.

VOA —Iran will inform the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna on Tuesday over its start of a process to increase the country’s uranium enrichment capacity, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told ISNA news agency. “In a letter that will be handed over to the International Atomic Energy Agency … Iran will announce that the process of increasing the …

CHRI – Payam Vali’s eyeglass lens manufacturing business in the Iranian city of Karaj was shuttered by the authorities in 2008 because of his religious beliefs. Ten years later, he’s still fighting to get it back.

AL-Monitor – On the first day of what quickly became Iran’s largest trucker strike in recent years, a driver told his audience on film, “Today, May 22, on the ring road of Kavar, we are making sure that none of the vehicles driving between Shiraz and Bandar Abbas can pass. We are stopping everybody.” Six days later, and with thousands …

Al-Monitor – One of the complicated aspects of the Syrian civil war is that while two allies may cooperate inside the country, their allegiances outside may contrast differently.

Radiofarda – Banks at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport are struggling to provide the foreign currencies paid for by passengers, who are forming long lines.

Al-Arabia – Following reports of Iranian airlines using their fleet to help transport arms and personnel to Syria, the US Treasury implemented sanctions, with more action to follow according to the Washington Institute.

RFL/RE – The UN nuclear watchdog has reiterated its call for Iran to provide “timely and proactive cooperation” on inspections that are part of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Radiofarda – In an editorial to mark the June 4 anniversary of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini’s death, the editor of a flagship hardline newspaper wrote a “performance report” stressing people’s dissatisfaction with the Islamic Republic.