AP — A hard-line Iranian newspaper has printed a front page image showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear blast, meant to criticize the Japanese prime minister’s close ties with the U.S. ahead of his historic visit to Iran. The daily Farheekhtegan, or Educated, followed it up with a large headline in both English and Farsi, saying: “How Can You …

Radiofarda – The spokesman of Islamic revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has denied recent reports and rumors that several commanders have fled or have been arrested. (L to R) Muhammad Tavalaee, a former deputy of the Revolutionary Guard, Mostafa Rabiee, Ex IRGC Commander and Ali Nassiri, former commander of the Revolutionary Guards. File photos Ramezan Sharif was quoted Tuesday by IRGC-run …

Radiofarda – Iran’s military expenditures have been declining, writes Iranian military analyst Hossein Aryan in an analysis for Radio Farda’s Persian website based on data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The decline in Iran’s military spending comes against a backdrop of rising tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and these two countries as well as Qatar …

An Iranian version of Uber has triggered a heated debate over the country’s strict Islamic dress code for women known as the hijab. Snapp driver Said Abed a taxi driver after being hosted in prime time TV show in IRIB(June 10) A female passenger in Tehran complained on Twitter on June 6 about a Snapp taxi driver who had forced …

AL-Arabia – Lebanese IT expert Nizar Zakka, who arrived in Beirut on Tuesday after being detained in Iran since 2015, told Al Arabiya that he was “subjected to all kinds of torture from the Iranians” when he was first arrested. Zakka also said that it was the Revolutionary Guards that interrogated him, not the Iranian intelligence. “My next mission is …

RFL/RE – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is headed to Iran, saying he hopes to help ease tensions between Washington and Tehran. Abe is expected to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rohani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his trip to Tehran — the first by a sitting Japanese prime minister in more than four decades. Tehran has been …

RFL/RE – Iranian lawmaker Parvaneh Salahshuri, a sociologist, says that when she decided to apply for one of a handful of influential posts in parliament, she realized she didn’t have a chance. The reason, as the 55-year-old reformist sees it, is that she’s a woman.“The lawmakers saw it as a man’s position and they wouldn’t accept the presence of a …

RFL/RE – “The entry of Afghans into this store is forbidden because I do not like them.” That was the sign on the window of a retail store in the Iranian city of Nazarabad, located in the western province of Alborz.Video footage of the racist shop sign first appeared in May, prompting widespread outrage among Afghans and Iranians on social …

Radiozamaneh – The majority of Zamaneh Media Panelists, who mostly live in Iran, think that the way to get out of the current diplomatic crisis is “the negotiations with the United States”, although the country’s leaders have not yet decided to do so. At the same time, more than two thirds of the panelists identify with this political slogan: “No …

CHRI – Political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was stabbed to death in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after he was unlawfully kept in a ward that holds inmates convicted of dangerous crimes, his lawyer informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This was a preventable death and resulted from gross negligence on the part of the authorities,” said …