Social and Political

Radiofarda – As the trial for eight prominent Iranian environmentalists charged with “sowing corruption on earth,” and spying, intelligence agents are reportedly set to produce a new pseudo-documentary film against them.

Al-Arabia – Foreign ministers and senior officials from 60 nations gather in the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday where the United States hopes to ratchet up pressure against Iran.

RFL/RE – The International Court of Justice is expected to issue a ruling on an effort by Iran to recover $2 billion in assets frozen by the United States.

RFL/RE – The United States is organizing a major Middle East conference in Warsaw, hosted by Poland, which has moved to tightly embrace Washington as a counterweight to Russia.

RFL/RE  — The son of the Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, asserted that Iranian society is close to a “flash point” like it was before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and that the government in Tehran is near collapse.

VOA – Iran says it has held a third session of a closed-door trial of eight Iranian conservationists who have spent a year in detention on spying-related charges that their supporters say are trumped-up.

Radiofarda – Iran’s ministry of economy and finance is drafting regulation to set up companies for doing barter trade with foreign partners as a way of circumventing U.S. sanctions.

Radiofarda – The U.S. House Financial Services committee said it has postponed a planned hearing on the use of U.S. sanctions against North Korea, Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Islamic revolution four decades ago has been a complete failure for the country, President Donald Trump said Monday.

Radiofarda – February 11 was the fortieth anniversary of the triumph of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. As the last considerable revolution of the past century, and a major push-back against modernity, it casts doubt on a great number of widely accepted dogmas of social progress.