mehriran.de/en – We have published the first part of a document about intelligence activities of a branch of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran in Europe on 20.04.2019. Here we share some additional material about the activities of an agent in Cyprus who targets Sufi groups in order to influence their leaders on the matter of Iran. mehriran.de/en – In Part 1, …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic judiciary spokesman says that the order issued by the city of Isfahan’ prosecutor to ban cycling for women has been misunderstood. Speaking on Tuesday, Gholam Hossein Esmaeili reiterated that women’s cycling is not banned, provided the religious rules are respected. Earlier on May 14, the prosecutor in Iran’s third largest city had announced that women …

Radiofarda – Half of all Americans believe that the United States will go to war with Iran “within the next few years,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released on Tuesday amid increased tensions between the two countries. While Americans are more concerned about Iran as a security threat to the United States now than they were last year, …

Radiofarda – Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh says INSTEX, the EU’s financial mechanism to help Iran in trade, is unlikely to become operational anytime soon. Hit hard by U.S. sanctions Iran has been demanding that Europe to help maintain trade, since the United Kingdom, France and Germany are signatories of the 2015 …

Radiofarda – Mohammad Hadi Razavi – the son-in-law of Iran’s labor minister, Mohammad Shariatmadari – has been charged with embezzlement and “disruption of the economy” after receiving 2.11 trillion rials (around $51m) in loans from banks, which he has failed to pay back. Tehran’s deputy prosecutor Rasoul Qahremani accused Hadi Razavi along with 30 other suspects during the second hearing …

Iran-HRM – More than 900 writers, poets, essayists, and journalists in Iran have condemned the recent harsh verdicts against three prominent members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) as an “unjustified,” and “severe damage to the fundamental rights of all Iranians” that “kills freedom.” The statement published on Sunday, May 19 calls upon the Islamic Republic judiciary to immediately and …

RFL/RE- Iraq will send delegations to Washington and Tehran to help “end tension” amid concerns of a possible military conflict between the United States and Iran, the Iraqi prime minister has said.Adel Abdul Mahdi said on May 21 that Iraq, which has close ties to both Iran and the United States, is “playing a role to calm the situation but …

VOA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday it was “quite possible” Iran was responsible for sabotage of Gulf oil interests as he prepared to brief lawmakers on rising tensions. Pompeo cautioned that the United States has not made “a definitive conclusion” that can be presented publicly over mysterious sabotage incidents of oil tankers off the United Arab …

VOA — Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan said the steps taken to bolster the U.S. military presence in the Middle East have deterred Iran and “put on hold the potential for attacks on Americans,” even as Iran carried out other attacks. “It doesn’t mean that the threats that we previously identified have gone away. Our prudent response, I think, …

CHRI – Malicious Spyware Has Attacked At Least 74 Victims Worldwide, Azeri and Gonabadi Dissidents Among Targets Iranian state agents continue to use malware to hack into the online accounts of religious minority groups inside and outside Iran, investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has shown, with the latest attacks, designed to steal the private information …