Al-Arabia – At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior US official told European diplomats that their efforts to save the deal by protecting EU investment in the Islamic republic were pointless.

Al-Arabia – President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had no plans to meet with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations “despite requests” to do so.

Al-Arabia – The same week that the United States and Iran are heading for a showdown at the United Nations General Assembly, an attack that killed 29, including members of Iran’s prized Revolutionary Guard, has caused tensions between the two countries to rise to new heights.

Shabtab- The Iranian regime not only regularly violates the rights of its citizens, but as the following clip shows, it is ready to adopt  distracting tactics in order to stop any mention of these violations within established world bodies.

Iran-HRM – The conditions of human rights activist Farhad Meysami, held in Iran’s infamous Evin prison and on hunger strike for more than 54 days, has deteriorated significantly, reports indicate.

RFL/RE – British Prime Minister Theresa May will press for the release of a British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran at a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rohani in New York on September 25, a senior government official said.

RFL/RE – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has dismissed Iran’s accusations that the United States was behind a deadly weekend attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran, calling the allegations “ludicrous.”

VOA – Iran’s currency has hit another record low against the dollar, six weeks before the United States is due to reimpose sanctions on Iranian oil exports that are Tehran’s main revenue source.

VOA – The five remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal have agreed to establish a special payment system to allow companies to continue doing business with the regime, bypassing new sanctions imposed by the United States.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Iranian authorities have tightened their grip on union activities in recent years, and teacher union activists are far from the exception. Indeed, if representatives of various industries have been met with blowback for organizing in defense of their colleagues’ collective rights, a retrospective of crackdowns in the education field gives reason to believe that …