Radiofarda – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Monday said any “unconstructive decision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will receive an “appropriate response” from Iran. The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog’s governing body will hold a virtual meeting on Monday morning and Iran is likely to be the focus of the meeting. A resolution against Iran – if …

Radiofarda – Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Iranian Central Bank’s headquarters in Tehran mid-day Sunday June 14 protesting about the losses they incurred as a result of a special rate of exchange the bank has devised for businesses. The protesters blamed inherent “inefficiency and embezzlement” in the NIMA system [Persian acronym for Consolidated System of Forex Transactions] …

Radiofarda – In the third court hearing of a major corruption case in Iran, more revelations were made about a fugitive judge who fled the country last year and is now in Romania. One witness told the court, “We offered Judge Gholamreza Mansouri half a million euros (about $562,000), but he demanded more.” The Media Center of the Islamic Republic …

Radiofarda – A preliminary court in Iran has found former outspoken female member of parliament guilty, and soon she will be put on trial. The case against Ms. Parvaneh Salahshouri, with numerous plaintiffs, and after preliminary investigations, has been referred to the court, Fars news agency reported June 14. Based on the indictment, Parvaneh Salahshouri, 55, is charged with “spreading …

Radiofarda – Iran’s vice president Es’haq Jahangiri says that as a result of a “plot by the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia” his country’s oil revenues dropped from $100 billion a year to nine billion in 2019. Jahangiri did not specify when Iran’s annual oil exports amounted to $100 billion, but according to OPEC data in 2011 and 2012 …

Radiofarda – Iran says it may take legal action to free billions of dollars of its oil money frozen in South Korea’s banks due to U.S. sanctions. In one of the latest developments in the saga to get some of its frozen assets released, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati to take “firm measures” including …

Iran-HRM – More than 100 inmates have been executed in Iran from January to mid-June 2020. At least 30 of these executions have been announced by official and semi-official press and media, and the other 79 were carried out in secret. At least two women were hanged in January 2020.  One of them was identified as Maliheh Haj Hassani, hanged in …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Zahra Safaei was threatened with assault and murder in Qarchak Prison by ordinary criminals hired by the Ministry of Intelligence. Three prisoners incited by Ministry of Intelligence agents threatened Zahra Safaei to death on Sunday, June 13.Based on Article 69 of the State Prisons Organization’s regulations, authorities are required to divide prisoners Article 69 of the …

Iran-HRM – Maryam Akbari Monfared was verbally summoned to the Evin Courthouse on Wednesday, June 10, to be arraigned with charges levelled in a new case recently filed against her. Ms. Akbari Monfared refused to appear in the courthouse as a gesture of protest to her lack of access to legal counsel and the authorities’ failure to send her a …

RFL/RE – Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, a legendary actor in Iranian film, theater, and television, has died at the age of 90 in Tehran. Keshavarz was hospitalized in early June with a kidney problem, after which he was placed in the intensive care unit due to a lung infection. The prominent actor had been ill since 1990 and hospitalized several times. …