Social and Political

Al-Arabia – Divisions between the United States and Europe over the Iran nuclear deal marked this year’s Munich Security Conference as US Vice President Mike Pence and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took each other to task.

RFL/RE – Iran’s foreign minister has condemned Washington’s efforts to press European allies to pull out of a landmark nuclear agreement with Tehran.

VOA – In early January, labor activist Esmail Bakhshi posted a letter on Instagram saying he had been tortured in jail, attracting support from tens of thousands of Iranians online.

VOA – Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbors to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, in his latest attempt to weaken ties between regional rival Saudi Arabia and America.

VOA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed Thursday by VOA Persian in Warsaw, where he discussed Israel’s outreach to Arab countries and the Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu was in Warsaw in connection with a U.S.-led conference on Mideast security.

gatestoneinstitute.org – As it marked its fourth decade in power, the Iranian regime implicitly admitted the bankruptcy of its narrative, according to which the 1979 revolution was prompted by a desire to “revive Islam” which, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, with the exception of the brief caliphate of Ali ibn Abi-Taleb, had been in agony.

Radiofarda – The victors of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran believed in an economic miracle and assumed they would be reaching their Utopia in no time based on Islamic fundamentalism and their motto of “neither East, nor West” Article 12 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets the regime’s objectives as “A fair economy based on …

Radiofarda – Pretoria’s former ambassador to Iran, Yusuf Saloojee, was arrested in South Africa on Thursday over allegations of corruption related to telecoms giant MTN’s cell phone operating license in the Islamic Republic, police said on Friday.

Radiofarda – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office leaked video of Gulf Arab ministers slamming Iran during a closed-door session of a Middle East conference in Warsaw, Israeli media reported Friday.

Radiofarda – The U.S. State Department has condemned the continued house arrests of former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and former Majles Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of Iran’s reformist Green Movement.