Al-Arabia – The world has been focusing on the flawed Iran nuclear deal and Tehran’s long slate of belligerence, including advancing its so-called defensive ballistic missile program and support for a conglomerate of terrorist/extremist groups.

Al-Monitor – Turbulent developments in the past few months on the foreign exchange and gold markets in Iran and the government’s failure to manage runaway prices has compelled some economists to start using the term “bubble economy.” The interrelationship among various markets within the country’s economy was explained in a June 14 Al-Monitor piece. In this article, however, we will …

AL-Monitor – As the unofficial exchange rate in Iran hit a record 90,000 rials to the dollar June 24, a second day of protests erupted in Iran. On June 24, shopkeepers selling cellphones and computer equipment at two main malls in Iran went on strike over the sudden increase in the unofficial rate — until recently, the black-market, unofficial exchange …

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Fatemeh Mohammadi, 19, is a new Christian convert who was arrested in November 2017 and subsequently sentenced to six months in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Ms. Mohammadi was recently released after serving her sentence in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. In an open letter, she talks about the pains …

Iran Human Rights – Two prisoners who were sentenced to death on murder charges were transferred to the solitary confinement of Rasht Central Prison.

Iran Human Rights –  Saeed Ahadi, a juvenile offender who is sentenced to death, was beaten in Rajai Shahr Prison causing a fracture in his right arm.

Iran Human Rights –  A prisoner was executed at Shirvan Prison (North Khorasan) on murder charges.

Payvandnews – The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says it plans to create what it has described as a secondary currency market to help ease tensions that plunged the rial against the US dollar to a record low level on Sunday. CBI chief Valiollah Seif told reporters on Monday that the secondary currency market would be dedicated to selling US …

Radiofarda – Police in Tehran have fired tear-gas at a crowd of protesters who marched to the Iranian parliament on June 25 after swarming the city’s historic Grand Bazaar in anger over the country’s troubled economy. 

Radiofarda – The Iranian supreme leader’s top military adviser, Yahya Rahim Safavi, has threatened Saudi Arabia with “a barrage of missiles.”