Al-Arabia – Iran on Sunday said it will keep its military forces in Syria despite appeals from its ally Russia to withdraw its Revolutionary Guard Corps and other militias.

RFL/RE – Iran has detained a teenager who posted dance videos on her Instagram page, which has more than 40,000 followers.

RFL/RE – Dutch airline KLM says it has decided to suspend its flights to Tehran for the time being “as a result of the negative results and financial outlook.”

VOA — One of the world’s biggest cargo shippers announced Saturday that it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled in U.S. sanctions, and President Hassan Rouhani demanded that European countries to do more to offset the U.S. measures.

Iran-HRM – On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, following the protest and labor strike of the drivers of the Hakim Farabi Sugarcane Development Company of Khuzestan against the lack of increase in salaries and benefits, one of the striking drivers was attacked and beaten by the company’s authorities.

Radiofarda – Javid Rehman, a British-Pakistani legal scholar has been appointed as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.

Radiofarda – The brother of an Iranian Kurdish man on death row says the prison authorities have told the dissident that he would either be executed or killed behind bars.

VOA  — Iran said Saturday it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. 

VOA — Ankara has criticized Washington’s hardline policy toward Tehran, and with Turkey’s cooperation seen as vital to enforcing U.S. sanctions against Iran, analysts say a new confrontation could be looming.

Al-Monitor – Despite numerous obstacles and challenges, the women’s rights movement in Iran continues to move forward. Indeed, while to some the pace of its advances may seem slow, its achievements in the past few years cannot be ignored.