Al-Arabia – Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday that a European mechanism to trade with Tehran fell short and that France, Britain and Germany needed to do more to show their commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
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US-Europe divisions over Iran deal mark this year’s Munich security conference
Al-Arabia – Divisions between the United States and Europe over the Iran nuclear deal marked this year’s Munich Security Conference as US Vice President Mike Pence and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took each other to task.
Read More »Kurdistan Teachers Association Member Held After Peaceful Protests
Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities have detained a teachers union member in northwestern Kurdistan province.
Read More »Iranian Political Prisoner Mehdi Farahi Shandiz Taken To Solitary Confinement
Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime has transferred Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, teacher and political prisoner in Karaj Central Prison, to solitary confinement for chanting anti-government slogans.
Read More »Zarif Condemns U.S. Efforts To Persuade Allies To Pull Out Of Iran Deal
RFL/RE – Iran’s foreign minister has condemned Washington’s efforts to press European allies to pull out of a landmark nuclear agreement with Tehran.
Read More »Iran Government Faces Angry Online Backlash Over Activists’ Abuse Claims
VOA – In early January, labor activist Esmail Bakhshi posted a letter on Instagram saying he had been tortured in jail, attracting support from tens of thousands of Iranians online.
Read More »Rouhani Says Iran Ready to Improve Ties With Gulf States
VOA – Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbors to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, in his latest attempt to weaken ties between regional rival Saudi Arabia and America.
Read More »VOA Persian Interviews Israel’s Netanyahu
VOA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed Thursday by VOA Persian in Warsaw, where he discussed Israel’s outreach to Arab countries and the Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu was in Warsaw in connection with a U.S.-led conference on Mideast security.
Read More »Mullahs Masquerading as Patriots: Will it Work?
gatestoneinstitute.org – As it marked its fourth decade in power, the Iranian regime implicitly admitted the bankruptcy of its narrative, according to which the 1979 revolution was prompted by a desire to “revive Islam” which, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, with the exception of the brief caliphate of Ali ibn Abi-Taleb, had been in agony.
Read More »The 10 Nightmares Of The Iranian Economy
Radiofarda – The victors of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran believed in an economic miracle and assumed they would be reaching their Utopia in no time based on Islamic fundamentalism and their motto of “neither East, nor West” Article 12 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets the regime’s objectives as “A fair economy based on …
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