Radiofarda – The remaining signatories to the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal plan to meet next week in an effort to save the accord, the European Union says. In a statement on June 20, the EU said senior officials from Iran, France, Germany, Britain, China, and Russia will meet on June 28 in Vienna to discuss the deal, known as …

Radiofarda – Early signs of Iran claiming victory from the June 20 drone shooting emerged on Friday as Prayer Imams taunted the United States and demanded an “apology” from Washington. Tehran’s Friday Prayer Imam, Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari has accused the United States of attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Speaking in his sermons in Tehran on …

Al-Arabia – The United States envoy on Iran, Brian Hook, said on Friday that if Iran was not countered in Yemen, the risk of a regional conflict in the Middle East will increase. “Iran’s efforts to use surrogates to attack Saudi Arabia and destabilize the region needs to be countered,” he said. It is important that Iran “does not gain …

Al-Arabia – The Pentagon on Thursday released an image it said showed the flight path for the drone that was shot down by Iran, but did not immediately provide a detailed explanation of the image. The US release of the image appeared to be an effort to bolster its case that the drone was shot down in international airspace. Tehran said …

Al-Arabia – Iran refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the downed drone in the Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday.Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency: “With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 …

Iran-HRM – The death sentences of five inmates including a woman were carried out Wednesday morning, June 19, 2019. The woman hanged in Gohardasht Prison, a.k.a Rajai-Shahr, was the 89th woman executed during Rouhani’s term in office since 2013. Fatemeh Nassiri had been in jail since 11 years ago when she undertook the responsibility of a murder committed by her son. She had …

RFL/RE – Iran says it has “indisputable” evidence that an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone it shot down on June 20 violated Iranian airspace. Iran’s Foreign Ministry made the statement on June 21, just hours after U.S. media reported that President Donald Trump had approved and then canceled retaliatory military strikes against Iran. Meanwhile, the U.S. envoy on Iran, Brian Hook, …

RFL/RE – Iran warned on June 17 that it would further reduce its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement it made with world powers — which has significantly limited Iran’s sensitive nuclear activities in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. The announcement was expected, as Iranian President Hassan Rohani had said in May that Tehran would scale down its …

VOA — National security officials in Washington are declining comment on media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump approved military strikes against in Iran Thursday but then pulled back from launching them for unknown reasons. Trump initially authorized attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, such as radar and missile batteries, as first reported by The New York Times. The …

gatestoneinstitute.org 0 Already eight years ago, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani boasted to the US General David Petraeus that: “You should know that I… control policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Afghanistan. The ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who’s going to replace him is a Quds Force member.” …