Radiofarda – Members of the Taliban political office in Doha have held discussions with Iran’s foreign ministry and high-level officials in Tehran, Tasnim news agency close to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) reported on Tuesday. Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (Center, front), leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia …

Radiofarda – Two days after the devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil establishments that halved the country’s oil output, a Trump Administration official has told ABC News it was Iran that launched the attack using “a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory.” ABC has characterized the accusation as an “extraordinary charge,” although other sources have also speculated about …

Radiofarda – Iran will never hold talks with the United States and Washington’s policy of maximum pressure on Tehran will fail, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, according to state TV. Khamenei’s comments come after a devastating attack on Saudi Arabia’s key oil installations last Saturday, which the United States has blamed Iran for.This is not a new …

Al-Arabia – American officials have informed Saudi Arabia that US intelligence indicates that Iran is the source of the attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). A satellite image showing damage to oil/gas Saudi Aramco infrastructure at Khurais, in Saudi Arabia in this handout picture released by the US Government September …

Iran-HRM – A peaceful gathering of HEPCO workers was violently repressed Monday, September 16, after the state security forces attacked the protesters. Reports indicate that 15 workers were injured while 30 to 40 were arrested. Workers from the Hepco industrial complex in the central city of Arak held their protest rally for the second consecutive day, demanding answers on their …

RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump has said that it is increasingly “looking like” Iran was behind an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities over the weekend, but said it was still too early to be sure.He also said the United States doesn’t want war but was ready to help the country’s key ally in the Gulf region counter the …

RFL/RE – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted the leaders of Russia and Iran in Ankara on September 16 for talks aimed at finding a lasting truce in the ruinous eight-year Syrian civil war.Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rohani, and Erdogan each met separately before meeting for their fifth summit. They discussed Idlib, a region in northwestern Syria …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a ship in the Persian Gulf, accusing it of smuggling diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). An IRGC commander said on September 16 that the vessel was carrying 250,000 liters of fuel when it was detained near Iran’s Greater Tunb island, according to official media. The …

Amnesty – Austrian-Iranian businessman Kamran Ghaderi is serving a 10-year prison sentence after a grossly unfair trial that relied on “confessions” obtained under torture to convict him of “co-operating with hostile states against the Islamic Republic”. He was denied access to a lawyer and his family, and he needs ongoing medical care for a tumour in his left leg. Choose …

CHRI – Australian academic Kylie Gilbert-Moore has been held for almost a year in Ward 2-A of Tehran’s Evin Prison, controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence organization, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “Little is known about the IRGC’s security ward except that detainees held there are cut off from the outside world and their …