Al-Monitor – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Friday that Tehran “never has hope” in the ongoing talks seeking to revive the 2015 nuclear accord.  “We put our hopes in the east, west, north, south of our country and never have hope in Vienna and New York,” Iran’s hard-liner president said during a televised speech marking the anniversary of the 1979 …

Al-Arabia – The Arab Coalition has conducted 16 targeted strikes in Yemen’s Hajjah and Saada in the last 24 hours, in an attempt to deter the Iran-backed Houthi militia, the offical Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

Al-Arabia – Thousands of Iranians drove through Tehran on Friday to mark the 43rd anniversary of the country’s Islamic Revolution, staying in vehicles rather than marching on foot amid COVID-19 restrictions. Due to the pandemic, state television said this year, as the previous year, there should be “no gathering or marching” by those celebrating the 1979 overthrow of the shah’s …

Iranwire -Friday, February 11, is the 43rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The Iranian government has staged tens of abductions, forced disappearances and assassinations of its opponents in other countries around the world. On July 22, 1980, Dawud Salahuddin, an American convert to Islam, assassinated Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, a former Iranian diplomat under the rule of Shah …

Iranwire – Seventeen people have been arrested on attempted kidnapping charges and collusion with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence after Turkish authorities foiled a plot to abduct an Iranian man based in Turkey and return him to the Islamic Republic. Turkish media site Odatv reported that the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) arrested Morteza Soltan Sanjali, an employee for the Bai Sagholam Defense Industries Company …

Iranwire – Friday, February 11, is the 43rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The Iranian government has staged tens of abductions, forced disappearances and assassinations of its opponents in other countries around the world. The Islamic Republic has always denied that it carries out trans-national attacks – but this position is undermined by both the frequency of the …

Iranwire – A spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s Budget Reconciliation Committee announced that two trillion tomans (over $477 million) has been allocated to complete unfinished prayer houses, and that the Khatam-al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, an affiliate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), can receive this amount in the form of crude oil any time it wishes. According to the spokesman, …

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Habibi, a spokesman for the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), said that Ministry of Education has issued some directives aimed at “terrorizing” teachers and preventing them from attending protest rallies. On his Twitter account Habibi published the pictures of two directives recently issued by the Ministry of Education. بخشنامه هایی برای ایجاد رعب و وحشت در میان …

CHRI – Mona “Ghazal” Heydari was 17 years old when her husband, Sajjad Heydari, decapitated her and paraded her head on a street in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province—at times smiling at a camera. “Now do you have anything more to say?” he said while carrying the girl’s severed head in his hand by her hair in a …

Al-Monitor – “The precise, radar-evading and pinpointing missile is capable of dealing maximum blows on the Zionist regime in any potential confrontation,” read an editorial in hard-line newspaper Khorasan Feb. 10. The piece outlined the features of the “Kheybar-Shekan,” a new long-range missile unveiled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday. The Persian name for the missile means “the smasher of Kheybar,” …