Social and Political

Radiofarda – Members of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) have recently tabled motions that can adversely affect President Hassan Rouhani’s administration. Most recently, on Sunday June 30, several members of the Parliament called for amending the internal regulations of the Majles in a way that would strengthen the parliament’s supervisory role, and give it a better leverage on the administration, Tasnim …

Al-Arabia – Iran will never succumb to US pressure and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday.“Iran will never yield to pressure from the United States … America should try to respect Iran … if they want to talk to Iran, they should show respect,” Zarif said in a …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile has passed the 300 kilogram limit under its nuclear deal, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday, citing an unnamed “informed source.”Iranian officials have said in recent days that the Islamic Republic is on track to pass the enriched uranium limit, which was set under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the …

Radiofarda – While the EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini insists that a special mechanism to allow trade with Iran (INSTEX) has become “operational,” Iran’s permanent representative to the UN says the new device is a car without gas. In a joint press conference after talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on June 25, in Brussels, Mogherini had …

Radiofarda – Saudi-led coalition forces intercepted a drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis at Jizan airport in southern Saudi Arabia, a coalition spokesman said on Saturday. Houthi-run Masirah TV reported earlier that the Iran-aligned movement had carried out drone attacks on military positions and aircraft hangars at the airport. “The attack has not achieved any of its targets and the drone …

AP — An official with an Iran-backed militia says members of his group comprised the majority of protesters outside the Bahrain embassy in the Iraqi capital that was attacked this week. But he says he doesn’t know who stormed the mission. Protesters storm Bahraini embassy in Iraqi capital #Baghdad An Iraqi security official says protesters have stormed the Bahraini embassy …

AL-Arabia – Americans have never been worthy of negotiations and they never will be, a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday, adding that recent US sanctions against Iran show that “American officials are distressed.” “America has never been worthy of negotiations and it will not be in the future either,” the chairman …

RFL/RE – Leaders from Russia and Saudi Arabia say the so-called OPEC+ group has agreed to extend by six to nine months a deal to reduce oil output in an effort to bolster global crude prices in the face of a potential economic slowdown.Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Japan, on …

VOA – It is up to Europe to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions and prevent it from further scaling back its compliance with its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, Iranian state TV said Saturday, with only days left on Tehran’s ultimatum. Iran’s envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the nuclear accord said Friday that European countries had offered …

gatestoneinstitute.org ….sanctions are working not by wrecking the lives of ordinary Iranians, who do suffer nevertheless, but by denying the mullahs the means to indulge in their deadly Tom-and-Jerry shenanigans. Each time the US imposed sanctions, the mullahs took a bite of humble pie and briefly modified aspects of their behavior as if playing a Tom-and-Jerry script. However, once sanctions …