Social and Political

PayvandNews – A top Iranian constitutional body has approved measures passed by parliament to bring the country more into line with international anti-money-laundering norms.

Radiofarda – Iran unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile on Monday and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed the Islamic Republic’s ongoing economic crisis on the Rouhani administration, and has forbidden negotiating with the United States, during a speech in Tehran on Monday August 13.

Radiofarda – A former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says “the United States and Israel have set up an intelligence organization in Iran.”

Al-Arabia – The Iranian regime has recently moved up its fall military exercises, due to the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions as they say, and test fired a short-range ballistic missile. This launching comes after a pause of more than a year..

Al-Arabia – Iranian paramilitary forces deployed members of its “Al-Sabreen Brigade,” usually tasked with protecting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the Iraqi-Iranian borders, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Sunday.

Al-Arabia – General Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command, has said Iran is central to an “expensive and expansive campaign of malign activity” in the Middle East.

Iran-HRM – A member of Iranian Parliment says 50 percent of the country’s population live in absolute poverty, and the poverty line has reached close to 6 million tomans (about 1.370 dollars).

Iran-HRM – Seven children are thought missing during a recent police raid on an immigrant neighborhood in south of the Capital, yet no government official has taken action to locate them. One of the children Shahnavaz, 11, who was older than the others could find his way back home, but there is no information on the other six.

RFL/RE – The leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan met in Aqtau, Kazakhstan, on August 12 for what was supposed to be the long-awaited signing of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea.