Al-Arabia – A former Iranian lawmaker and one of the founders of Hezbollah in Lebanon died due to a coronavirus infection on Monday, the official IRNA news agency reported. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Ali-Akbar Mohtashamipour, who was 75 at the time of his death, had been living in the Iraqi …

Iranwire – Even in the chilliest of pre-election atmospheres, the televised presidential candidates’ debates are usually nominally interesting. But last Friday, the first debate of a scheduled seven brought nothing but disillusionment to Iranian economists. The candidates had nothing but the most general and scattered of observations to make on Iran’s ongoing financial crisis. They were united in criticizing the …

Iranwire – The wife of the former Shah of Iran, Farah Pahlavi, has penned an open letter to the head of the World Health Organization requesting the allocation of some US-donated Covid-19 vaccines to the Iranian people. In the letter, which was published on Twitter, Farah Pahlavi advised Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the Iranian government had “delayed public vaccination, leaving …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Arabs are aware that Hamas’s only interest is to appease the mullahs in Tehran for the sake of milking them for more money and weapons. The Arabs understand that this just is another farce by Hamas and particularly Iran. It is… refreshing to see how many Arabs are aware of the dangers of Iran’s involvement with Palestinian …

Iran-HRM – An Iranian retired teacher Nahid Fathalian has contracted the coronavirus at the women’s ward of the notorious Evin Prison. Retired teacher Nahid Fathalian tested positive for the virus at the women ward of Tehran’s Evin prison. Nahid Fathalian needs to receive proper treatment, while her stay in prison would threaten the health of other prisoners. Evin Prison authorities have …

Al-Arabia – A fire broke out at a steel factory in the Iranian city of Zarand in the central Kerman province, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday. The accident occurred due to the spillage of molten material, Fars quoted Ali Sadeghzadeh, governor of Zarand, as saying. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via …

Al-Arabia – Iran-backed Houthis fired a ballistic missile Saturday on a government-held city, killing at least 17 people, including a 5-year-old girl, an official said. The missile hit a gas station in the Rawdha neighborhood in Marib, according to Ali al-Ghulisi, the Marib governor’s press secretary. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [I]n dealing with the mullahs it is appeasement that encourages war. [N]o sooner had Biden’s appeasement squad been deployed than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei… revive[d] the embers of several conflicts into blazing flames. The revised budget… includes a 62 percent raise in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ share. The Quds (Jerusalem) Force, which is in charge of exporting revolution …

RFL/RE – Iran’s presidential candidates on June 5 traded accusations over the country’s economic crisis during their first debate ahead of the June 18 election.The three-hour televised debate was the first of three in the run-up to the election, which comes amid widespread discontent over a deep economic crisis caused by the reimposition of sanctions after the United States pulled …

VOA – Several oil facility fires have occurred in Iran’s southwestern Ahvaz region during the past 48 hours, Arab media reported Saturday. The reports came on the heels of a massive oil refinery fire this week in the capital, Tehran. The fires followed the suspicious sinking of Iran’s largest naval ship, the Kharg, earlier in the week. The string of …