Iranwire – Reports from Isfahan indicate martial law has been imposed on the periphery of the Zayanderud river. Friday morning saw a widespread presence of security agents throughout the city, as well as intermittent disruption of the internet and phone lines. A citizen journalist sent the below video to IranWire. It indicates a heavy security atmosphere in Isfahan on Friday, with a …

Iran-HRM – After one month of detention, there is no news available on Abbas Ali Ramezani and his brother, Bahram. The two brothers are presently detained in the detention Center of Mashhad, the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran. Over the past month, Mr. Ramezani has been under interrogation and deprived of having visitations. He has had a …

Al-Monitor – The parties to the now-fractured accord on Iran’s nuclear program, as well as the United States (which withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in May 2018), are unlikely to reach an agreement this week on piecing a deal back together. Veteran US diplomat Aaron David Miller writes at CNN this week that “having spent a couple decades …

Al-Monitor – Ehsan Khandoozi, Iran’s minister of finance and economic affairs, has outlined details of an “economic roadmap” to address the country’s economic ills. The goals and timeline had been published in June, but experts were waiting for detailed actions to be published. In the meantime, comments by the minister as well as an initial assessment of the plan reveal more about …

Iranwire – Reports from Isfahan indicate martial law has been imposed on the periphery of the Zayanderud river. Friday morning saw a widespread presence of security agents throughout the city, as well as intermittent disruption of the internet and phone lines. The tightening of restrictions came after locals issued a public call for people to join a fresh demonstration over the local water …

Iranwire – In late September, the International Court of Arbitration in Paris awarded Dana Gas, a subsidiary of the Emirati company Crescent Petroleum, $607.5 million over a decades-long dispute with Iran’s National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). The deal, signed in 2001 by Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, the oil minister under President Khatami, was unilaterally terminated by the Ahmadinejad administration in 2005 just as …

VOA —U.S. officials are increasing pressure on Iran to make progress in reviving a 2015 deal that curbed the Iranian nuclear program, saying they will determine within days if Tehran is serious about negotiations with world powers in Vienna. “We’re going to know very, very quickly, I think in the next day or two, whether Iran is serious or not,” …

Al-Monitor – The “Israeli regime … is trumpeting lies to poison Vienna talks,” tweeted Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh on the eve of the fourth day of nuclear talks between Tehran and major powers in the Austria capital. The stinging statement came in reaction to press reports earlier this week that Israel had provided the Western sides with intelligence that the …

Al-Monitor -The commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that the United States’ “teeth will be crushed” if it moves against Iran, according to state media. Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warned that Iran’s military capabilities had advanced to the point that the US “cannot do what you used to do in the past any longer. …

RFL/RE – Tehran says a deal with global powers to salvage a landmark 2015 nuclear deal is within reach even as the UN’s atomic watchdog said the country further violated the accord by starting to produce enriched uranium with more efficient centrifuges at its underground Fordow facility.Iran’s chief negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Khani, said on December 2 his team had …