Iranwire – The foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the United States have presented a united front on the Iranian regime’s behavior toward its neighbors. At a first-of-its-kind meeting on Sunday, representatives from Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE and Morocco joined counterparts from the US and Israel in the kibbutz of Sde Boker, in Israel’s southern Negev Desert. The four …

Iranwire – The sheer violence of the Taliban’s first reign in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s was such that many analysts now fear the same will happen again, with potentially horrific consequences both for neighboring countries and the wider world. One fear is that Afghanistan could again become a hotbed for international terrorism, as it was when Osama bin Laden and …

Iran-HRM – A woman was beaten to death by her father because she wanted to get a divorce for the second time. The woman identified as 20-year-old Zinat Mazidi died after being beaten with an iron bar suffering multiple blows to the head. She was from a village in Fars Province. A photo of a poster announcing a memorial ceremony …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged the United States on Sunday to heed calls against any removal of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps from the US terrorism blacklist. “We’re concerned about the intention to delist the IRGC,” Bennett told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “I hope the United States will hear the concerned voices from the …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has joined his counterparts from Israel and four Persian Gulf countries for talks in Jerusalem expected to center on continuing Iranian nuclear negotiations after assuring U.S. allies that they and Washington “see eye to eye.” Host Israel has publicly opposed the 2015 deal between Iran and world powers to grant sanctions relief …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Authorities called on ten other Muslim converts to Christianity, who were earlier cleared of all charges, to take “re-education” classes led by Islamic clerics… Earlier, the prosecutor in the case against these Christians had said that “apostasy” from Islam was punishable under Islamic law, or sharia, “and in the hereafter,” even though it was “not criminalised in the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – To justify his invasion, Putin has cited irredentist demands coupled with kith-and-kin claims and national security interests. If adopted as acceptable behavior, Putin’s scenario would be applicable to numerous other cases across the globe. The most obvious example is that of China, where the Communist regime can threaten Taiwan on the basis of Putin’s arguments. But the same …

Iranwire – During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, from 1980 to 1988, thousands of Baha’is went to the front alongside their compatriots. Dozens of them were killed, wounded or captured. The Islamic Republic is reluctant to name them alongside other victims of the conflict – the ones were were killed are officially termed “martyrs” of the war. A continuing series of …

Iran-HRM – In a letter from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, a jailed civil activist who has been deprived of medical leave for months, wrote about his observations about the ‘weekly executions’ plan and the hanging of up to ten people every Wednesday morning in this prison. In his letter published on Thursday, March 24, Saeed Eghbali described the “sound …

VOA —U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday he was not confident that a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran was imminent, dampening expectations after 11 months of talks in Vienna that have stalled. The failure of efforts to restore a 2015 accord, which would curb Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting tough sanctions, risks …