Radiofarda – Nearly ten years after a harsh crackdown ended Iran’s youth-driven Green Movement, sometimes called the “Persian Spring,” it appears university students have lost their appetite for political activism amid ever tighter restrictions on freedom of speech.

Radiofarda – Pentagon and the U.S. State Department went all out on Thursday to show that Iran is breaking United Nations resolutions by aggressively sending arms to rebel groups in the region.

Radiofarda – The patience of Iranian leaders is seemingly running thin as six months after the US pull-out from the nuclear deal, EU’s promise to save the agreement has not materialized and its Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to facilitate Iran’s trade is far from operational.

Reuters – Imports of Iranian crude oil by major buyers in Asia hit a five-year low in October, as China, Japan and South Korea sharply cut purchases ahead of U.S. sanctions on Tehran that took effect in early November, government and ship-tracking data showed. China, India, Japan and South Korea last month imported about 762,000 barrels per day (bpd) from …

Radiofarda – Labor activists in Iran say a detained worker and labor leader was tortured in custody and hospitalized in recent days, while officials deny the accusations.

Al-Arabia – Economic and political tensions are rising between Iran and Iraq. One of the major contributors is the souring of Muqtada al-Sadr’s personal relationship with Iran and, to a lesser extent, Iraq’s cooperation with the sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States this month.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Amirsalar Davoudi, member of the Iranian Bar Association was arrested by the Iranian Judiciary on Tuesday, November 20. Amirsalar Davoudi was the defense attorney of several political and civil activists in Iran.

CHRI – Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow ailing fellow political prisoner Farhad Meysami to receive hospital treatment, a source informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

Al-Monitor – When the administration of President Hassan Rouhani fixed the exchange rate of the Iranian rial against the US dollar back in April — an ultimately failed effort to curb the free fall of Iran’s national currency — it also revived a controversial mandatory currency repatriation policy. The initiative, which obligates exporters to bring home their hard currency revenues through …

Al-Monitor – A group of conservative Iranian lawmakers is facing a backlash for an attempt to impeach Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.