Al-Arabia – Javad Karimi Ghodoosi, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committees of Iran’s parliament, said that secret negotiations are underway between experts at the Iranian foreign ministry and their counterparts in the US administration in the Oman’s capital Muscat.
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Israeli army says Syria ordered Gaza rocket fire with Iran backing
AL-Arabia – The Israeli army accused the Syrian government Saturday of instructing a Palestinian militant group to fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza with Iran’s support and vowed to respond.
Read More »Facebook Deletes Iran-Linked Accounts Followed By 1 Million In U.S., Britain
RFL/RE – Facebook says it has deleted accounts originating in Iran that featured posts on politically divisive topics and attracted more than 1 million followers in Britain and the United States.
Read More »Iran: Environmentalists Face Capital Charges
HRW – Detained for 9 Months; No Access to a Lawyer
Read More »Why Chinese public diplomacy is failing in Iran
Al-Monitor – Increasing reports of academic and cultural exchanges between China and Iran indicate that China is pursuing an active public diplomacy in Iran.
Read More »Khamenei says Iran did not encourage fighters to go to Syria, Iraq
Al-Monitor – Millions of Shiite Muslims make a pilgrimage every year to the Hussein ibn Ali shrine in Karbala, Iraq, to commemorate the battle in which the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad was killed. Under Saddam Hussein’s rule, Arbaeen — meaning the “40th” day — commemorations were subdued. With the fall of Saddam and closer Iran-Iraq relations, Arbaeen pilgrimages have become important not only for millions of …
Read More »Intel: How allowing Iran to stay in SWIFT financial network would impact US oil sanctions
Al-Monitor – With crippling sanctions set to resume next month, the Donald Trump administration is debating how far to go in cutting off Iran from the global financial system. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has told foreign governments that Washington is backing off its push to force the Belgium-based financial messaging network SWIFT to kick out sanctioned Iranian banks, the Wall Street …
Read More »France Expels Iranian Diplomat Over Failed Bomb Plot – Sources
radiofarda – France has expelled an Iranian diplomat in response to a failed plot to carry out a bomb attack at a rally near Paris organized by an exiled Iranian opposition group, diplomatic and security sources say.
Read More »UN Investigating Whether Iran Supplied Weapons Seized By U.S. Navy Near Yemen
rferl.org – UN inspectors are examining more than 2,500 AK-47 rifles and other guns seized by the crew of a U.S. destroyer off the coast of Yemen to determine whether the weapons originated in Iran or Somalia.
Read More »Drop out of children exceeds 7.4 million this year
iran-hrm.com – An Iranian regime official acknowledged the catastrophic statistics on the number of children left out of school in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the beginning of the new school year.
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