Al-Monitor – International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi arrived in Iran today following reports that Iran had produced particles of enriched uranium at 83.7%, close to the 90% required for weaponization. The IAEA Board of Governors meets next week in Vienna, and the US and its EU partners are considering another resolution of censure against Iran. US Iran Envoy Robert Malley told …

Al-Arabia – The US is waiting for the head of the UN nuclear watchdog to meet with Iranian officials this weekend before deciding on its next steps in response to Tehran’s nuclear escalations, a State Department official said Wednesday. “We understand IAEA Director General Grossi will be in Tehran for high-level meetings this weekend, and we await the results of those discussions …

Al-Arabia – The ongoing wave of poison attacks on schoolgirls in Iran is a plot by Tehran’s “enemies” to create fear in the country’s schools, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday. “The enemy wants to create fear in schools and create chaos in various fields through insecurity and an atmosphere of fear and despair,” state news agency IRNA quoted Raisi as saying …

RFL/RE – The United States said it was imposing sanctions on a number of Iranian-linked oil shippers and petrochemical firms, accusing them of violating U.S. restrictions. The moves, announced on March 2, were the latest effort by Washington to curtail Iranian oil smuggling. In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the sanctions targeted 11 firms and 20 …

Iranwire – The ongoing wave of nationwide protests in Iran have become a battleground for a war of narratives. The Islamic Republic’s authorities and propaganda machine have sought to discredit the protests as being a result of foreign meddling and misinformation spread by Farsi-language media outlets based outside the country. Meanwhile, the authorities have tightly controlled domestic media to promote …

Iranwire – Germany has joined the United States in expressing concern over a wave of poisonings at girls’ schools across Iran and in calling on the country’s authorities to thoroughly investigate the incidents. Over the past three months, hundreds of school students, mostly girls, have been treated for poisoning symptoms, including nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, and heart palpitations. Some …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

Iranwire – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian foreign minister, was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the evening of March 1 as he was wrapping up a tense visit to Geneva, Switzerland. When asked direct and challenging questions related to the Islamic Republic’s bloody crackdown on months-long anti-government protests in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands were illegally arrested, …

VOA – UNICEF offered Thursday to help Iran solve a series of incidents in which noxious fumes have sickened schoolchildren, particularly girls, in what some officials suspect is an attack on women’s education. “School is a safe haven for children and teenagers to learn in a safe and supportive environment,” the United Nations children’s humanitarian agency said in a Twitter …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities have executed at least one Ahwazi Arab, 14 Kurds and 13 Baluchis following grossly unfair trials, and sentenced at least a dozen others to death since the start of the year, marking a chilling escalation in the use of the death penalty as a tool of repression against ethnic minorities, Amnesty International and Abdorrahman Boroumand …