Social and Political

Radiofarada – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from five mostly Muslim countries — a big victory for the Republican leader after a tortuous legal battle.

Radiofarada – Yesterday’s protest or the high value of the dollar are continuing today. There are protests in the surrounding areas to the Grand Bazaar. According to the the DPA news agency Tehran’s chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said that “A large number” of people who took part in a mass protest in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar this week have been …

Radiofarda – High concentration of salt in the water has shut down the industrial and agricultural sectors around the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan and forced some of the residents to emigrate to other cities, an Iranian official says. “In the last month, the situation has become so critical that business activities have been directly affected”, Masoud Khayyatzadeh, the president …

Radiofarad – Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that three border guards have been killed in a clash with a “terrorist group” in southeastern Iran.

RFL/RE – President Hassan Rohani has reassured Iranians that his government will offset the economic pressure of upcoming U.S. sanctions, a day after protests fueled by concern over a sharp fall in the value of the country’s currency. In a speech broadcast live on state television on June 26, Rohani said that government revenues had not decreased in recent months, …

RFL/RE – Iranian women have scored another victory as they publicly viewed a World Cup game for only the second time in 40 years, but their team was eliminated from the tournament partly as a result of controversial decisions by referees in a game against Portugal.

Al-Arabia – The world has been focusing on the flawed Iran nuclear deal and Tehran’s long slate of belligerence, including advancing its so-called defensive ballistic missile program and support for a conglomerate of terrorist/extremist groups.

Al-Monitor – Turbulent developments in the past few months on the foreign exchange and gold markets in Iran and the government’s failure to manage runaway prices has compelled some economists to start using the term “bubble economy.” The interrelationship among various markets within the country’s economy was explained in a June 14 Al-Monitor piece. In this article, however, we will …

AL-Monitor – As the unofficial exchange rate in Iran hit a record 90,000 rials to the dollar June 24, a second day of protests erupted in Iran. On June 24, shopkeepers selling cellphones and computer equipment at two main malls in Iran went on strike over the sudden increase in the unofficial rate — until recently, the black-market, unofficial exchange …

Radiofarda – Police in Tehran have fired tear-gas at a crowd of protesters who marched to the Iranian parliament on June 25 after swarming the city’s historic Grand Bazaar in anger over the country’s troubled economy.