VOA — Iran is determined to fight against U.S. President Donald Trump’s anticipated Israel-Palestinian peace plan, parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Tuesday according to semi-official news agency ISNA.
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Iran, Russia move to expand security collaboration
Al-Monitor – Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs, Hossein Zolfaqari, met with Vasilii Piskarev, the chairman of the Russian Duma’s Committee on Security and Corruption Control, on Nov. 5. At the meeting, both sides stressed the need to finalize a bilateral security agreement and described cybersecurity, the fight against terrorism and countering drug proliferation and illegal immigration as key aspects of such an accord.
Read More »Iran hard-line MPs gird to impeach Zarif
Al-Monitor – Only a few weeks after a fresh Cabinet reshuffle triggered by multiple impeachments, a group of Iranian hard-line lawmakers is going out of its way to unseat four ministers. The foreign, interior, science and education ministers are now on the list.
Read More »What’s it like to be a female football player in Iran?
aljazeera.com – Iranian women tackle odds to earn place in football pitch that is still currently dominated by men.
Read More »Iranian MPs Submit Request To Impeach Zarif
Radiofarda – A member of Iranian parliament’s presidium has told an Iranian news website that a proposal for impeaching foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been received by parliament’s leadership.
Read More »Prominent Rights Activist Goes On Hunger Strike In Iran Prison
Radiofarda – A prominent Iranian rights activist and political prisoner has started a hunger strike to support another prisoner of conscience whose health is deteriorating in prison.
Read More »‘Nothing Left’ For Iran In JCPOA, Araqchi Says
Radiofarda – Tehran has no benefit from the nuclear deal anymore since Washington reimposed sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, warned on Monday, November 26.
Read More »Sugarcane Mill Workers Ignore Warnings, Continue Protests
Radiofarda – A labor strike at the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane Mill in southeastern Iran is entering its fourth consecutive week, with workers demanding overdue wages and a return of the mill to public ownership.
Read More »Pompeo: Rouhani works to isolate regime from both world and Iranian people
Al-Arabia – The US Department of Sate released a press statement by Secretary Mike Pompeo on Monday stating that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has “once again called for the destruction of Israel”, which comes across as “seemingly calling for war.”
Read More »Iranian Sunni cleric shot, killed in northern Iran
Al-Arabia – Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency says a Sunni cleric who had worked to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites, members of the two biggest sects in Islam, was shot and killed.
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