gatestoneinstitute.org – Now, Britain and France seek to appease the three powers that most threaten the world today: Iran, China and Russia. Both countries [Britain and France], as well as Germany and the EU itself, knew only too well that, rather than its stated purpose of denying Iran a route to nuclear weapons, the JCPOA in fact paved Iran’s pathway …

Radiofarda – The Tweeter account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday tweeted his criticism of importing “luxury American smartphones” from an iPhone. In a video conference with President Hassan Rouhani on the occasion of the Government Week Khamenei called for economic reforms and criticized the half a billion-dollar imports of iPhones in the previous Iranian calendar year which …

Radiofarda – A lawsuit against a former deputy mayor shows that thirteen trillion rials ($440 million) of financial irregularities took place under the watch of current parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf when he was the capital’s mayor from 2005 to 2017. Speaking to pro-reform Etemad Online on Saturday, a current member of city council Mohammad Javad Haqshenas implicitly criticized the …

(AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel on Monday, on the first leg of his Mideast press the momentum of the Trump administration’s Arab-Israeli peace push. Pompeo was scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and discuss the recently announced historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, brokered by Washington, …

Radiofarda – Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeni Yenin is claiming that the data retrieved from flight P-752’s recorders verifies Iran’s responsibility for downing the plane on January 8, 2020 over Tehran, and called for the truth about the incident. On Sunday, Touraj Dehghani-Zanganeh, the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, announced several takeaways from the analysis of the data and …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Prosecutor-General Mohammad-Javad Montazeri is urging President Hassan Rouhani to cancel the ban on holding mourning ceremonies of the Islamic month of Muharram in mosques and Tekyehs, places designed specifically for such ceremonies during the mourning month. Fars News Agency reported on Sunday that Montazeri has said that the ban on holding mourning ceremonies in mosques, tekyehs and …

Radiofarda – President Hassan Rouhani says Iran’s economy has shrunk by only 3 percent as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, while the economy of most countries have contracted by up to 20 percent. Rouhani made the claim in a video conference with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday, August 23. The video conference replaced a usual annual meeting to …

VOA – A fire at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility last month was the result of sabotage, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation told state TV channel al-Alam on Sunday. “The explosion at Natanz nuclear facility was a result of sabotage operations, security authorities will reveal in due time the reason behind the blast,” said Behrouz Kamalvandi. Iran’s top security …

Iran-HRM – Inmates do forced labor in the Great Tehran Penitentiary. This is according to recent reports from inside Iran. Some of the supervisors and prison guards in Ward 5 of the Great Tehran Penitentiary take advantage of the inmates who are in jail for selling alcoholic beverages. There are more than 1500 inmates in the Great Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh) who have …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder has been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner on death row at Sanandaj Central Prison was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution this morning. His identity has been established …