devdiscourse.com – The European Union on Monday imposed new sanctions on Iranian officials and entities for their role in the violent crackdown against public protests in the Islamic republic. The new sanctions target 5 people and two entities, the European Council said on its Twitter account. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had flagged these new sanctions earlier in the day. …

Al-Arabia – Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch US weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by The Associated Press. The photos and videos from Planet Labs PBC show …

Iranwire — On Saturday night (May 20) young people gathered in crowded bars in the Ukrainian capital, sharing jokes, stories and drinks, like on any other Saturday. However, two things were out of the ordinary: a curfew was imposed because of the war, so people had to be home by midnight, and an air raid siren rang out over the …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas canisters, 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 – The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran on May 13 and lodged a strong protest over the presence of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties at an official ceremony attended by high-ranking Iraqi officials. Two days earlier, the Iranian delegation, led by Iran’s consul-general in Erbil, capital of the Iraqi Kurdish region, left the opening ceremony for the Barzani National Museum, a …

VOA – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appointed a new head of the country’s top security body on Monday. State media said Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a Revolutionary Guards commander, would serve as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. Ahmadian replaces Ali Shamkhani, who served in the post for a decade and played a key role in thawing relations with regional …

VOA – Iran on Sunday summoned Switzerland’s ambassador over a tweet calling for a stop to executions linked to protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, Tehran’s foreign ministry said. The Swiss embassy took to Twitter on Friday to “strongly condemn” the execution earlier that day of three men convicted of killing security force members during last year’s protests …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – The Fars province’s prosecutor today announced that the death sentences of Afghan nationals, Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeim Hashem Ghotali have been upheld and will be publicly carried out in Shiraz imminently. The Afghans were sentenced to death for charges of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) and baghy (armed rebellion) based on torture-tainted confessions, without due process and fair trial …

iranintl – Iran received two international rebukes this week, one by G7 countries meeting in Japan and another by the Arab League summit held in Saudi Arabia. The G7 summit strongly criticized Iran’s nuclear, human rights and regional policies in its final communiqué in direct and no uncertain terms. The main trust of the G7 statement was Iran’s nuclear program, which is …

timesofisrael – Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib said Sunday that the country’s forces had recently captured a “terrorist” group he claimed was linked to Israel, local media reported. Khatib said the team was captured entering across the western border with Iraq. He said the new government in Iraq has promised to tighten border security. “Any action on the borders will …