Social and Political

RFL/RE – The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation that would have barred President Donald Trump from launching an attack on Iran without first obtaining congressional approval.Senators voted 50-to-40 in the June 28 vote, falling short of the 60-vote minimum in the Republican-controlled Senate to pass the amendment.The measure was attached to the annual policy bill known as the National …

Radiozamaneh 0 The green movement predominantly – but by no means exclusively – was composed of urban middle classes who supported reformists in the 2008 election. This stands in high contrast to the uprisings of lower classes and the subalterns in January 2018 who “had nothing to lose but their chains”. In distinction to the ‘decentralized’, ‘headless’, form of the January 2018 uprisings, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Arash Sadeghi, who is diagnosed with a chondrosarcoma cancer, and is in addition suffering from a post-operative infection has not been sent to a hospital for further treatment yet. He is in critical condition now. According to IHR sources, the imprisoned civil activist Arash Sadeghi has been denied proper medical treatment despite his critical condition …

Radiofarda – U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to work on improving relations between the two superpowers in their first meeting since a report detailed Moscow’s organized campaign to influence U.S. elections.The June 28 meeting during a G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, got off to a bumpy start when Trump was asked about whether …

Radiofarda – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has warned that Iran’s retaliatory actions against U.S. will target America’s allies in the region, and around the world. He also warned that U.S. sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could lead to the mobilization of people across the globe who “are in love …

Radiofarda – U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook has said the United States is denying Tehran up to $50 billion in oil revenue exports as a result of sanctions imposed on Iran. Since the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran in 2018, daily oil exports have dropped from more than two million barrels a day to around 300,000. Speaking …

Radiofarda – The European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini says a special mechanism to allow trade with Iran is expected to be launched soon. In a joint press conference after talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on June 25, in Brussels, Mogherini said the Instrument for Trade and Exchanges, INSTEX may soon be ready and operational. INSTEX …

Al-Arabia – There is “no rush” to resolve tensions between the United States and Iran that have raised fears of a military conflict, US President Donald Trump said Friday. “We have a lot of time. There’s no rush, they can take their time. There is absolutely no time pressure,” he said in Osaka, where world leaders are meeting for the …

Al-Arabia – Iran said Friday’s meeting in Vienna between the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal was the “last chance” to save the accord after the US withdrawal last year and warned Tehran would not accept “artificial” solutions to US sanctions. Iran is threatening to exceed the maximum amount of enriched uranium allowed it by the deal, in retaliation for …

VOA – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he came away with no firm commitments from NATO allies to participate in a global effort to secure international waterways against Iran. He says the U.S. will provide more details to allies next month on how the Iranian threat has escalated and how they can work together to deter further aggression. …