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Monthly Archives: May 2019

U.S. B-52 Bombers Arrive In Qatar To Counter Unspecified Threat From Iran

RFL/RE – The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that B-52 bombers sent by the White House to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major U.S. air base in Qatar. Images released by the U.S. Air Force’s Central Command on May 10 show B-52H Stratofortress bombers arriving at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar …

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U.S. Warns Iran While Urging Leaders To Sit Down For Talks

RFL/RE – The United States appears to be taking a carrot-and-stick approach to Tehran, threatening “swift and decisive” response to any Iranian attack, while at the same time urging the country’s leaders to sit down for talks.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 9 said in a statement that “our restraint to this point should not be mistaken by Iran …

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China, India Seen as Europe’s Last Hope to Save Iran Deal

VOA — The European Union will defend the Iran nuclear accord despite Tehran’s decision to backtrack on its commitments in response to U.S. sanctions, diplomats believe, but European powers expect it to collapse without a deal to sell Iranian oil to China or India. Britain, France and Germany, which signed the 2015 deal along with the United States, China and …

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US Carrier, Bombers Arrive in Middle East to Deter Iran

VOA — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and four B-52 bombers have arrived in the Middle East in response to concerns Iran may be planning an attack against American targets.  The carrier strike group completed its transit Thursday through the Suez Canal, U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. William Urban told VOA. He said two B-52 bombers …

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Official: Pompeo Returns to US to Discuss Iran, North Korea

VOA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cut short a European trip and returned to Washington for meetings on Iran and North Korea, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. Pompeo first changed his plans to have meetings on Iran after U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The sanctions …

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Iran’s Minister of Education Sees “Plot” Behind Videos of Dancing Schoolchildren

CHRI – Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based Iranian singer Sasy Mankan. The videos are part of an online “dance challenge” that features children in different schools around the country grooving to Mankan’s newly released “Gentlemen” song. The ministry …

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UN Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders

CHRI – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing serious concerns for up to 90 individuals who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offences and are on death row. “The executions of two 17-year-old boys last week underlines our concerns that the Iranian …

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Amid US pressure, Iran warns Europe of another ‘wave’ of refugees

Al-Monitor – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has declared that Iran would consider asking Afghan refugees to leave the country if the United States continues to apply economic pressure in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and promises to increase economic sanctions on the country. Subsequent statements by Iranian officials hinted that the Afghans would likely then look …

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Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets

hyperallergic.com — Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom, a hybrid memoir of prose and poetry with some photos thrown in, delves into the author’s childhood in Tehran, the Iranian revolution, and her move to the United States as a teenager. But most compelling of all is her underlying journey to becoming a translator and multi-disciplinary artist through her love of the influential poet Ahmad …

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U.S. And Europe Reacting To Iran’s Nuclear Decision

Radiofarda – Iran’s announcement that it is suspending the full implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement was “intentionally ambiguous,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, May 8. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt (L) attend a joint press conference at the Foreign Office in central London on May 8, 2019. …

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