Prominent disqualified candidates urge Iranians to still vote
Al-Monitor - Iranians continue to react to the decision to bar well-known Reformists and centrists from running in next month's presidential elections.…
One dead, two injured in blast at petrochemical facility in Iran’s Asaluyeh
Al-Arabia - One person died and two others were wounded in an explosion at a petrochemical complex in southern Iran…
Faezeh Hashemi: This is Not an Election, It’s an Appointment
Iranwire - Prominent activist Faezeh Hashemi has spoken publicly about Ali Larijani’s surprise ousting from the presidential race, stating that…
Letter to the Wife of Iran’s Chief Justice: Your Husband Killed My Husband
Iranwire - Effat Mahbaz lost her brother and husband during the massacres of political dissidents in the late 1980s. In…
Rohani Urges Iran’s Supreme Leader To Open Election To More Candidates
RFL/RE - Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rohani says he has urged the country’s supreme leader to widen the field in…
Pompeo Rekindles Debate About US Response to Iran’s Hosting of Al-Qaida
VOA - Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made more detailed allegations about Iran's secretive relationship with al-Qaida,…
Round Five of Iran Nuclear Talks Opens in Vienna
VOA - Talks between Iran and the world powers still adhering to the 2015 nuclear deal resumed Tuesday in Vienna…
Tehran hard-liner council bans leading centrists from presidential race
Al-Monitor - The lengths Iran's Guardian Council went to to squash the presidential hopes of top moderates shocked even many hard-liners in the Islamic Republic. After nearly…
Blinken discusses Iran, US relations with Israel’s defense minister
Al-Arabia - Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met Israeli Minister of Defense Benjamin Gantz in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, as…
‘They Were Morally Corrupt’: Killings, Father’s Gruesome Confessions Shock Iran
RFL/RE - An Iranian couple allegedly confessed to drugging and dismembering the man's adult son and discarding the remains in…