Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani has warned the United States that it would risk a “very dangerous response” if it makes “another mistake.” Speaking with the U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on the phone on Thursday, Rouhani described the Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq as “self-defense” stipulated in Article 51 of the United Nation’s …

Radiofarda – The retaliatory action Iranian leaderss had promised after the United States killed Qassem Soleimani, was launched early Wednesday January 8: A missile attack against Ain Al-Asad, a U.S. military base in Western Iraq. So far, not only there is no news of any U.S. casualty, but U.S. President Donald Trump who said in a tweet that “All is …

AL-Arabia – Iran has cleared away most of the debris at the site of the Ukrainian plane crash, according to CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, despite Ukrainian investigators not yet arriving to inspect the site. Palmer was able to view the site in Tehran on Friday where the plane crashed on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. …

Al-Arabia – Twitter users have criticized Human Rights Watch’s Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar after they retweeted an article by a think tank which attacked the credentials of an Iranian activist who now works for the US government-funded Voice of America (VoA) news network. The article by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s article …

Al-Arabia – Iranian General Qassem Soleimani arrived at the Damascus airport in a vehicle with dark-tinted glass. Four soldiers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rode with him. They parked near a staircase leading to a Cham Wings Airbus A320, destined for Baghdad. Neither Soleimani nor the soldiers were registered on the passenger manifesto, according to a Cham Wings airline employee who …

RFL/RE – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has warned that Iran could have nuclear weapons in one or two years if Tehran continues to violate a landmark nuclear accord with world powers.The country’s top diplomat made the statement ahead of a January 10 emergency meeting of European Union foreign ministers, which comes amid mounting tensions between Iran and the …

VOA– The U.S. House of Representatives, as expected, on January 9 passed a nonbinding resolution limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against Iran.The resolution passed by a margin of 224-194 in the Democratic-led chamber, where many lawmakers were unconvinced with the White House’s justification for the targeted killing last week of Major General Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s most prominent …

VOA – Iran has invited the National Transportation Safety Board, the U.S. accident investigation agency, to participate in the probe of the Ukrainian Boeing commercial jetliner that crashed near Tehran earlier this week. The NTSB said in a statement Thursday it had received “formal notification” about the crash from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board of the Civil Aviation Organization of …

VOA – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to travel to Moscow Saturday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting will likely focus on the Iran crisis, with both Germany and Russia calling for de-escalation following the U.S. targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the retaliatory airstrikes by Tehran on Western military bases in Iraq.  The …

CHRI – Iran’s judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests this past November, said a group of UN human rights experts* on December 20, 2019. UN Experts Call on Iran to Release Detained ProtestersIran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently …