Social and Political

Radiofarda – A senior U.S. Treasury Department official has told Radio Farda in an interview September 25 that Iran’s Central Bank was recently sanctioned for “funneling billions of U.S. dollars and euros to finance terror”. Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said the United States has exposed the activities of Central Bank of Iran …

Radiofarda – Iran’s central bank chief has said all trade with Russia takes place in national currencies and 30-40 percent of trade with Turkey also is in national currencies, with the rest in euros. U.S sanctions imposed in 2018 bar trade with in using the dollar system, limiting Iran’s ability to conduct imports and exports, slowing its economy further on …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic Minister of Defense, Army Brigadier-General Amir Hatami, rejected on Wednesday, September 25, calls for negotiations over Iran’s missile program as a condition for ending Washington sanctions imposed on Tehran. He warned that “the enemies” are after restricting the resistance of “the Iranian nation” through limiting Iran’s missile capabilities and emphasized there is consensus among the …

AL-Arabia – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Iran’s involvement in the Saudi Aramco attacks increases the risk of conflict. He made the remarks at the Iran Summit, hosted by United Against Nuclear Iran. Pompeo also said that “the enforcement of sanctions [on Iran] has been, and will continue to be, relentless.” Sanctions have forced the …

VOA- President Donald Trump Wednesday gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or nonimmigrants, the White House said in a proclamation. The proclamation, posted on the White House website and bearing Wednesday’s date, repeated U.S. accusations that Iran sponsors terrorism, arbitrarily detains American citizens, threatens …

Al-Monitor — The divide between the United States and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was once again on stark display at the United Nations this morning, just days after Europe blamed Tehran for recent attacks against Saudi Arabia. Top diplomats from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China issued a joint statement after meeting with Iranian …

Al-Monitor – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic engagement with the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom has prompted a barrage of sharply worded attacks from hard-liners back at home. These critics have long accused Rouhani of failing to respond in kind to the European states’ “reneging” on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). They have been pushing for a full …

CHRI – The day before Iran’s speech at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, the families of dual and foreign nationals who were formerly imprisoned in the country as well as former prisoners launched the Alliance of Families Against State Hostage Taking. Announced at a September 24, 2019, press conference in New York City by family members of current …

PayvandNews – An international research endeavour has provided a genome-wide genetic characterization of the Iranian population, enabling further research on genetic diseases and historical migration movements / Publication in ‘PLOS Genetics’ Read the full study An international research team including scientists from the University of Cologne, Germany, numerous Iranian universities and the University of Sydney, Australia, has shown that today’s Iranian …

Radiofarda – A woman in Iran who sat on a police car in the street as a sign of protest to criticism of her hijab was arrested. Photo published on social media shows a young woman sitting on a police car in Iran. Undated The photo of the young woman sitting on a police car was published on social media, …