Iranwire – The security team of Hassan Khomeini, a grandson of the Islamic Republic’s founding father, assaulted an ILNA reporter while he was trying to take a picture of the cleric, the semi-official news agency says. The incident happened on May 31 in the Tehran headquarters of the Ettelaat Institute, which publishes a newspaper of the same name, during an …

VOA – White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday that the reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is not a current focus of the Biden administration. Kirby said the United States remains committed to ensuring Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons and that President Joe Biden “still believes that a diplomatic solution to that would be …

VOA – The U.N. nuclear watchdog has re-installed only some monitoring equipment originally put in place under the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers that Iran then ordered removed last year, the watchdog said in two reports on Wednesday seen by Reuters. The re-installed equipment is a fraction of what the International Atomic Energy Agency had planned to set up …