Al-Monitor – Mahmoud Sadeghi, an Iranian Reformist parliamentarian, has questioned the benefits of Iran staying in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear deal between Iran and five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany and the European Union, given the exit of the United States and Europe’s inability to provide the promised economic dividends under …

Al-Monitor – There is an Iranian proverb that goes, “You can tell a good year from its spring.” Judging from the massive damage caused by the recent floods in Iran, one has to conclude that the new Iranian year (beginning March 21) will be a bad one for the economy. The economic consequence of the recent floods will include a …

Radiofarda – Recent floods in Iran have killed dozens and displaced possibly millions of Iranians. Instead of helping them, most of the Islamic Republic’s time and energy has gone into sending foreign Hashd al Shaabi and Hezbollah fighters into Khuzestan. Iran – Iraqi militia entering Iran in April 2019 “to assist in flood relief”. These forces have engaged in light …

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in a shootout on April 24 in the Kurdistan province, Mehr news agency reported. Iran’s military often clashes with dissident Kurds in the west and northwest of the country. Several Kurdish armed groups, opposed to the Islamic Republic or advocating outright secession for Kurdish-populated areas, have sanctuaries …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said during an interview in New York on Wednesday that Iran is ready to swap prisoners with the United States. “I put this offer on the table publicly now. [Let’s] Exchange them”, Zarif said during an interview at the Asia Society in New York, adding that he has the authority to …

Radiofarda – The Secretary-General of the influential Expediency Discernment Council (EDC) in Iran says the designation of Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist group by Washington has a significant impact on the fate of financial reform bills demanded by the West. The Paris based international watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has demanded that Iran should adopt anti-corruption, anti-money laundering …

Radiofarda – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif does not believe U.S. President Donald Trump wants war with Iran, but he told Reuters on Wednesday that Trump could be lured into a conflict. “I don’t think he wants war,” Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York. “But that doesn’t exclude him …

Al-Arabia – The United States must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop Iran from selling oil and using the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Wednesday, while also offering to negotiate prisoner swaps with Washington.The United States on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months …

Iran-HRM – In recent days, Iranian authorities executed four prisoners in Babol, Mashhad, Ardebil and Kermanshah prisons. The regime executed a 26-year-old man on Wednesday, April 24, at Babol Prison, north of Iran, the state-run ROKNA news agency reported. He was identified only as A.Gh.He had been on death row since October 2014, on the charge of killing a man …

Iran-HRM – The Director General of the Intelligence Department in West Azarbaijan Province announced that 110 people have been “dealt with” for communicating with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). In comments carried by the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated to the IRGC, the regime official declared that 60 people have been arrested for communicating with the PMOI, while …