Al-Monitor – The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced new sanctions targeting firms involved in the production or transfer of Iranian drones to Russia for use in attacks against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center, which it accused of manufacturing the drones, including the single-use Shahed-136 drones that struck …

Al-Arabia – The Biden administration on Monday criticized Iran’s regime for the recent death sentence handed down to a protester while it welcomed the latest sanctions package by the EU and UK against Tehran. Nationwide anti-government protests have rocked Iran for almost two months now, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. More than 300 people have been …

RFL/RE – Iranian hunger-striking activist Hossein Ronaghi has been transferred back to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison after being moved to a hospital over health concerns. The Mizan news agency quoted “the opinion of doctors” at the hospital as stating there was an “improvement in the physical condition” of Ronaghi, prompting his discharge. Ronaghi was arrested during recent protests rocking the …

RFL/RE – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Germany’s ambassador, Hans-Udo Muzel, accusing Berlin of interfering in the Islamic republic’s internal affairs. “Some European countries, contrary to their international commitments in fighting terrorism, have become sponsors of terrorist groups,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said in comments reported by the semiofficial Fars news agency. On Twitter, the Iranian …

RFL/RE – Iran’s crackdown on protesters and the sale of drones to Russia have turned Washington’s focus away from reviving a nuclear deal, which Tehran has so far rejected, the U.S. special envoy for Iran said on November 14. Speaking to reporters in Paris, Robert Malley insisted that the United States would leave the door open to resume diplomacy “when …

Iranwire – In a previous report, IranWire identified the weapons and other equipment used by Iranian security forces to crack down on the nationwide protest movement that has swept Iran for eight weeks. This report takes a closer look at the individuals and companies that supply equipment used to either monitor and identify protesters or brutally suppress them. Surveillance Equipment CCTV …

Iranwire – Iranians have gone on strike in numerous cities across Iran to commemorate the November 2019 protests over a sudden rise in the price of gasoline that was crushed by security forces in a crackdown in which 1,500 people were reported killed. The November 15 strikes add to pressure on Iran’s clerical regime, which have been battling two months …

Iranwire – The European Union has imposed sanctions on the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), its Aerospace Force and a company making drones that the bloc says are being used by Russia in its war against Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western backers say Russian troops have used Iranian-made combat drone to target critical Ukrainian civilian and infrastructure …

VOA — The U.S. Navy said Tuesday it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among bags of fertilizer aboard a ship bound to Yemen from Iran, the first-such seizure in that country’s yearslong war as a cease-fire there has broken down. The Navy said the amount of ammonium perchlorate discovered could fuel more than a dozen medium-range ballistic …

VOA – The European Union on Monday slapped new sanctions on Iran for its crackdown on anti-government protesters and launched a mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers in member states. European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 29 Iranians, including high-ranking members of the country’s Revolutionary Guard and Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi. …