Social and Political

Radiofarda – For a second time in less than a month, Iran-backed militias in Iraq have sustained losses at their bases, as fire broke out Monday at a weapons depot causing explosions on the outskirts of Baghdad. In July, it was reported that a drone dropped explosives on a base belonging to Iran-linked Shi’ite paramilitary groups in northern Iraq, killing …

Radiofarda – Iran’s foreign ministry reacting to reports that France has offered to deposit $15 billion in a trade mechanism to help Iran conduct business regardless of U.S. sanctions, says that no proposal is yet definitive. Last week, Al-Mayadin Arabic news network had reported that French President Emmanuel Macron has told Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani over the phone Europe is …

Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned allies about the approaching end of some of UN arms and other sanctions against Iran. In a tweet August 13, Pompeo shows a countdown clock and says, “The clock is ticking. Time remaining before the UN arms embargo on Iran expires…” According to UN resolution 2231 following the conclusion of …

Radiofarda – Domestic critics of the Islamic Republic and its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have launched renewed attacks on the regime in recent weeks by voicing their protests in public statements and calling on the Supreme Leader to resign. A well-known political activist in Iran Abolfazl Qadiani has also renewed his criticism of Khamenei. “Iranians will not experience peace and …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s seized oil tanker Grace 1 will be freed by Tuesday evening, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency quoted unidentified Gibraltar authorities as saying, however a Gibraltar government source denied this.Gibraltar said on Tuesday it was seeking to de-escalate issues arising with Iran since the detention of the Grace 1 tanker by British marines in July.Last Update: Tuesday, …

Al-Arabia – British warship HMS Kent set sail for the Gulf on Monday to join a US-led mission protecting commercial shipping vessels in the region amid heightened political tension between the West and Iran. Britain has joined the United States in a maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect merchant vessels. That comes after Iran seized a British oil …

Iran-HRM – According to Iranian human rights sources,during the past weeks the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have opened fire on porters, killing and wounding dozens in Iran’s border areas. The state security forces on Saturday, August 19, opened fire on a group of porters (load carriers), killing a young man identified as Reza Ebrahimi and wounding another. In another repressive measure, …

RFL/RE – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the Iranian authorities to immediately release Nooshin Jafari, a photojournalist and culture reporter who was detained 10 days ago on unspecified charges. Iranian photojournalist Nooshin Jafari was arrested in Tehran on August 3. (file photo) “It is outrageous for Iran to hold a journalist in an unknown location, for no …

CHRI -The family of labor activist Roham Yeganeh has not heard from him since he was arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on August 3, 2019, his mother, Atieh Nouri, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August 6. Yeganeh and several others were trying to attend the trial of six workers’ rights activists …

financialtribune – Over the past 11 years, 34% of those who lost their lives in road accidents in Iran, constituting 70,056 victims, died in SAIPA’s small city car, Pride. Iran Traffic Police Chief General Kamal Hadianfar told ISNA, “A review of traffic accidents’ data from the past 11 years shows that 34% of the victims were passengers and or drivers …