Al-Monitor – Iranian social media users attacked a meme by government-run media quoting Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif saying that Iran will “survive” the US sanctions reimposed after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal.

Al-Monitor – Iranian conservatives appear to be planning to undermine the national parliament’s power as an institution, which would thereby undermine the elected body’s position within the country’s political system.

CHRI – Dorri Amri (Esmailpour), 44, began serving her one-year prison sentence in Vakilabad Prison in the Iranian city of Mashhad on November 14, 2018, for allegedly propagating her Baha’i faith, a source with knowledge of the case told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on November 19.

bourseandbazaar.com – Do sanctions reduce the military spending in Iran? This is the question we sought to answer by modeling the effects of sanctions on military spending in Iran to investigate the impact of unilateral sanctions (where only the United States sanctions Iran) and multilateral sanctions (where the United States acts in conjunction with other countries to sanction Iran). The …

PayvandNews – The International Horseback Archery Championship kicked off in Shiraz, Fars Province on Thursday.  The four-day competition brought 50 athletes from 19 countries together in the Iranian city.

Radiofarda – For the 24th time since last March, the facilities diverting water from the city of Isfahan, central Iran to the neighboring Yazd Province, have been sabotaged on Sunday, November 25, the Islamic Republic’s official news agency (IRNA) reported.

Radiofarda – According to the latest information provided by the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, there have been reports of children working in brick production and carpet weaving around the world. Children also work on family farms illegally and are forced by traffickers to work as street vendors or to beg.

Radiofarda – French and Iranian researchers have teamed up to find out what triggered the mysterious recent flash flood in Gazanak village at the foot of mount Damavand, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran.

Radiofarda – With offers from four American universities, Mani Rezaei Rad gave up his well-paid job with a Siemens affiliate company in Tehran last year and proposed to his girlfriend so they could be together while he studied in the United States.

Radiofarda – Iran’s nuclear chief warned the European Union of ominous consequences on Monday if it did not follow through with action to keep the economic benefits of the 2015 nuclear agreement alive.