Social and Political

RFL/RE  – Iran has strongly condemned Israel’s missile strikes on Iranian targets inside Syria.

RFL/RE – The White House wants UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites to continue, despite President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 agreement that authorized those inspections, U.S. officials have said. Days after Trump walked away from the deal and its mandate for rigorous scrutiny of Iranian facilities, senior administration officials said on May 10 that he wants monitoring to …

Al-Arabia – Having returned from North Korea on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will begin talks in coming days to persuade allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to press Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear and missile programs, US officials said.

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit China, Russia and Europe over the coming days for talks on salvaging the nuclear deal after the US withdrawal, his spokesman said Friday.

VOA – Western news agencies say the Iranian rial has weakened significantly against the dollar in black market trading following the U.S. decision to exit the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

CHRI – Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access in Iran to the widely used Telegram messaging and social media app, Telegram.

Al-Monitor – Israel today launched its largest barrage of rockets to strike Syria in recent years, claiming to target all of Iran’s military infrastructure in the country. Israeli officials said that the strikes were in response to 20 Iranian rockets that had targeted the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hours earlier. In recent months, Israel has reportedly been behind attacks on a number of Iranian sites inside …

Iran-HRM -The head of judiciary openly defended the blockage of Telegram. He admitted that Iranian regime’s officials expect that this network would cooperate with them.

Radiofarda – Outspoken MP Ali Motahari and a number of other Iranian political figures have criticized setting fire to a picture of the US flag and a copy of the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) at the Majles session on Wednesday May 9, the morning after US President Donald Trump announced the United States’ pullout from the nuclear deal with Iran.

Radiofarda – Following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear accords and the military escalation in Syria, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has reiterated Moscow’s support for the Islamic Republic of Iran.