Social and Political

Al-Monitor – Iranian authorities have vowed revenge after a suicide attack killed 27 border guards belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its southeastern border.

payvand – WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence officer who defected to Iran nearly six years ago has been charged with revealing classified military information to the Iranian government

radiofarda – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says it has cracked down on an international money-laundering network operated by organized-crime cells in Montreal and Toronto.

rferl.org – Russia, Turkey, and Iran see the planned U.S. withdrawal from Syria as a positive step, President Vladimir Putin said after a summit with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts on February 14 in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

rferl.org – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has blamed the United States and its regional allies for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

rferl.org – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has called on Washington’s European allies to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, saying that Iran is the “greatest threat to peace and security” in the Middle East.

Radiofarda – Radio Farda correspondent Morad Veissi has had a chat with Prince Reza Pahlavi, the next in line in Iran’s monarchical succession before the 1979 Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah. Pahlavi and his supporters have been more vocal in their criticism of the Islamic ruling establishment in recent months. This time last year, thousands of demonstrators took to the …

Radiofarda – The widely circulated news concerning the death of the Friday Prayer Imam of Ahvaz and the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in oil-rich Khuzestan province has been denied by his office.

Radiofarda – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran Tuesday that Israeli missiles can travel “very far”, on the eve of a conference in Poland about peace and security in the Middle East.

Radiofarda – Iran’s state broadcaster reports that nine people have been arrested in the Persian Gulf Imam Khomeini port (Mahshahr) who it says had killed two police officers.