Al-Arabia – Iran’s support for militias in the region should be included in ongoing talks in Vienna and the meetings should not be limited to only reviving the nuclear deal, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Nayef bin Falah al-Hajraf said at a virtual Gulf Research Meeting on Saturday. Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of other countries poses a …

Iranwire – He’s posted pictures of himself dressed in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps uniform, next to Ayatollahs and Grand Ayatollahs, from Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, to Naser Makarem Shirazi, to Mohammad Alavi Gorgani. He’s introduced himself under such titles as “Commander of Imam Mehdi Garrison” and “President of the Imam Sadegh Institute”. He’s delivered speeches about jihadi and charity campaigns. He’s only …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he so-called “nuclear issue” has always been a diversion designed to focus attention on a phantom while the living monster, wielding blood-soaked dagger, goes around spreading mayhem and murder. [Obama] failed, or refused, to ask the real questions: is the Islamic Republic not a threat to regional peace and the global rule of law with or without its …

VOA – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is condemning the violent suppression by Iranian security forces of protesters demanding action to resolve chronic water shortages in Khuzestan province. Peaceful protests took place last week in several cities across Khuzestan in southwestern Iran over water shortages and mismanagement.  Iranian security forces reacted by violently crushing the protests instead …

Iran-HRM – Iran’s IRGC and security forces have rounded up and detained scores of locals amid the ongoing protests over water shortage in Kuzestan Province. According to activists and local reports, the state security forces arrested several injured protesters from hospitals. A number of activists who had been previously arrested during the widespread protests in November 2019, are among those …

RFL/RE – One person was shot dead in Iran during the eighth consecutive night of protests over severe water shortages, bringing the death toll in the unrest to at least five. Two people also suffered gunshot wounds in the streets of Aligudarz, a town in the western province of Lorestan, state broadcaster IRIB’s website reported on July 23. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-protests-deaths/31373514.html The …

Al-Arabia – The United States is considering cracking down on Iranian oil sales to China as it braces for the possibility that Tehran may not return to nuclear talks or may adopt a harder line whenever it does, a US official said. Washington told Beijing earlier this year its main aim was to revive compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and, …

Al-Arabia – The United States’ Department of State has launched an inquiry into an allegation made by the Israeli government stating that Qatar’s royal family funded Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terrorist organization, online news organization the Washington Examiner reported Friday. The Israeli government report said that a spokesman from the state department told the Washington-based news agency about the ongoing …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Why is the Biden administration continuing to negotiate with the mullahs of Iran to revive the nuclear deal and lift sanctions placed against them — an act that would hugely strengthen their regime — after the country, during nuclear talks, was caught plotting to kidnap a US citizen in Brooklyn, New York? The message for the Biden administration, …

Iranwire – Iran’s Coronavirus Taskforce has ordered for non-essential businesses in Tehran and Karaj to close, part of a week-long lockdown to bring a recent spike in Covid-19 cases until control. The taskforce ordered the lockdown to begin Tuesday, July 20. Iran is currently experiencing a fifth wave of infections, and it’s the second time during the recent spike that the taskforce …