Radiofarda – A possible withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria appears to be on the agenda of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in his upcoming meetings with Iranian and Israeli officials, while mounting pressures on Iran aim at curbing Tehran’s regional ambitions. Ali Akbar Velayati, the international affairs adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

Radiofarda – A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed his country’s “strategic relationship” with Russia on Wednesday during a visit to Moscow, part of a diplomatic offensive by Tehran as it braces for renewed U.S. sanctions.

Radiofarda – India’s oil imports from Iran declined by 15.9 percent in June, the first month after the United States said it would reimpose sanctions on the country, according to data from shipping and industry sources.

Radiofarda – The decision of U.S. President Donald Trump in May to scrap the landmark 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) has jeopardized Iran’s railway projects with international companies.

Radiofarda – The Tehran City Council chairman has disclosed a mind-blowing 26,000 complaints against the city over the past two years for legal violations, mostly related to illegal construction activity and financial corruption.

Al-Arabia – German prosecutors said Wednesday a court had remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris on June 30. The suspect, a Vienna-based accredited Iranian diplomat whom opposition groups have named as Assadollah Assadi, 46, was one of several suspects detained in Germany, Belgium and France. They had allegedly …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said that the United States pledges to halt any sale of Iranian oil will undoubtedly have an effect, acknowledging the impact of economic sanctions which will begin gradually next month. But Jahangiri said that the right step to overcome this threat is by accelerating the sale of oil and intensively. The Iranian vice …

Iran-HRM – A young man was publicly flogged in eastern city of Kashmar, in Razavi Khorasan Province, the state-run Young Journalist Club website reported on Tuesday. The 27 year old victim, identified by the state media as M.R was sentenced to 80 lashes 12 years ago for drinking alcohol beverages in a wedding party where he got engaged in a …

RFL/RE – Iranian state television and a Kurdish exile group are reporting that at least 11 people have been killed in the collision of a tanker carrying tar and a passenger bus in Iran’s Kurdistan Province. State television said the crash occurred on July 10 just before midnight some 400 kilometers west of Tehran in the city of Sanandaj. The …

VOA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Brussels on Tuesday, where he plans meetings on the sidelines of a NATO summit aimed at stepping up pressure on Iran and reassuring allies about alternative oil supplies, a State Department official said.