phmuseum.com – With her project, photojournalist Solmaz Daryani underlines the harsh effects of climate change on the landscape, people and their economy in the south-east region of Iran. Iran is suffering from a socio-economic drought, where water demand exceeds the natural water supply. My country is facing a severe and protracted water crisis, and desertification as lakes and rivers once-fertile …

Radiofarda – Iran’s currency took another big hit on Monday, falling to 230,000 rials against the U.S. dollar despite official promises to prevent the further devaluation of the national currency. The Iranian rial for the first time ever fell to 200,000 against the dollar on June 24 and the plunge has continued since. The rial is also traded at more …

Radiofarda – Tehran’s new military agreement with Damascus has strengthened Syria’s chances of receiving Iranian designed and produced air defense systems to boost the war-torn country’s inefficient and weak anti-air networks. As a part of the new agreement, Tehran and Damascus confirmed that they have pledged to upgrade Syria’s air defenses. The confirmation was officially announced last week, when the …

Reuters – Yemen’s Saudi-Led coalition said on Monday it intercepted and destroyed four missiles and six explosive drones launched overnight by Houthi forces towards the kingdom. Cross-border attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement have escalated since late May when a truce prompted by the novel coronavirus expired. In late June, missiles reached the Saudi capital Riyadh. The coalition, in a …

Radiofarda – A top lawmaker in Iran has said that foreign minister Javad Zarif defended the Iran-China cooperation pact proposed document and told parliament today that talk about selling an island and cheap oil to China are mere rumors. The spokesman of parliament’s national security commission, Abolfazl Amuee quoted Zarif as saying that “national interests” have been considered in drafting …

Radiofarda – In a rare address to the Iranian parliament (Majles), Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made it clear that impeaching President Hassan Rouhani is out of the question. Speaking via video link on Sunday July 12, Khamenei said: “I strongly believe that governments should carry on doing their job until the last day of their term of …

VOA – A retired Iranian British engineer detained in Iran since 2017 on spying charges that he denies has decided to speak up for the first time about alleged human rights abuses at the Tehran jail where he is imprisoned. Anoosheh Ashoori is the latest of several individuals whose detentions in Iran under harsh conditions have pushed them into becoming …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iranian media confirm that a 51-year old man has been executed for drinking alcohol, asserting that his “repentance” had been rejected.  Noting this as one of the rare occasions that authorities have admitted to carrying out an execution for alcohol consumption in the last 40 years, the director of Iran Human Rights (IHR), Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, …

Al-Monitor , Gaza Strip — Since Hamas and Islamic Jihad remained on the sidelines in the Syrian civil war and left their respective offices in Damascus in 2012, Iran, a staunch ally of the Syrian regime, suspended its financial support to both movements, cutting off their largest sources of funding. The return of these relations, however, seems to be in the offing, especially with …

Radiofarda – Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has lambasted the Islamic Republic of Iran for interrogating the jailed director of the now-defunct dissident website AMAD News on TV. Interrogating suspects on TV and airing it amounts to “torture” RSF says. In a tweet on Saturday, July 11, RSF asserted that Mr. Rouhollah Zam has been in “solitary confinement” and his …