Social and Political

Al-Monitor – US secondary sanctions to limit Iran’s oil and petroleum products exports went into effect Nov. 5. However, the threat of sanctions had already reduced the actual volume of exports in the past months to an extent that Iran’s crude oil and gas liquids exports had fallen from their peak of 2.7 million barrels per day (mbpd) in May to …

Radiofarda – The latest figures released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in early November, puts the rise in real estate prices between October 2018 and the same month last year at 83.5 percent.

Radiofarda – Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani once called on Iranian diplomats to be “guerrillas in suits”. He borrowed this expression from a former U.S. official and currently a research scholar Richard Nephew, who was involved in developing the first round of U.S. sanctions on Iran in early 2010’s.

Radiofarda – The United States is determined to push Iranian oil exports to zero, U.S. Special Representative Brian Hook said on Wednesday, through a ‘calibrated’ approach using maximum economic pressure without lifting oil prices.

Al-Arabia – The United States is warning other countries not to allow Iranian oil tankers into their territorial waters or ports, saying such access may run afoul of US sanctions and not only incur penalties, but also result in catastrophic economic and environmental damage should an accident occur.

Iran-HRM – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the latest crackdown on journalists in Iran, in which, according to RSF several have been questioned in the past month or so and three have been arrested in the past week in connection with social network posts.

RF/LE -Danish authorities say three members of an Iranian exile opposition group arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism have been released.

RF/LE – The United States is warning other countries not to allow Iranian oil tankers into their ports, saying the tankers not only could incur penalties under U.S. sanctions but may be courting “environmental disaster.”

VOA – Authorities in Iran’s capital have arrested a journalist who wrote about government corruption, in the latest of a series of Iranian journalist detentions that have drawn international concern.

Al-Monitor – “In one sentence, we’re not pinning any hopes on [the US congressional midterm elections] or the 2020 [US presidential elections],” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with USA Todayone day before the US midterm elections. “What distinguishes Iran from some US clients in the region is that we have survived not only in spite of the …