Social and Political

PayvandNews – Signatories to Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers have held a new round of their periodic meetings to review its implementation amid US threats to kill the multilateral accord. Representatives from Iran, the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany convened in the Austrian city of Vienna on Friday for a meeting of the so-called Joint Comprehensive …

RFL/RE – Iranians hungry for the latest in Western gadgetry got an abrupt shock on March 15 when they were unable to access a key distribution platform for Apple-friendly software.

Radiofarda – Sons of a university professor and environmentalist who suspiciously died behind bars in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison have called upon Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pressure the Iranian authorities to allow their mother to leave Iran.

Radiofarda – Hard-line MP Javad Karimi Ghoddousi claims President Hassan Rouhani has said he is incapable of simultaneously financing both the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s regular army.

Radiofarda – US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert announced Washington’s concern over “grave conditions facing the press in Iran”, according to a statement posted on State Department’s website on March 15. Referring to this week’s discussion by the UN Human Rights Council of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Nauert underlined various …

RFL/RE – Saudi Arabia’s crown prince asserted on March 15 that the kingdom will develop nuclear weapons if Iran does, in a television interview immediately denounced by Tehran. Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015 that prohibits it from developing nuclear weapons, and beyond that. Tehran has said it has no ambition to develop such weapons of …

RFL/RE – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran of “mucking around” in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, in which Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is seeking another term in office in May.

Al-Arabia – The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey were locked in talks on Syria in Kazakhstan Friday, almost a month after the Moscow and Tehran-backed regime began pounding an opposition enclave just outside of Damascus.

VOA —The United States is demanding the world hold Syria’s government, Russia and Iran responsible for what a top official calls “some of the worst atrocities known to man.” The statement, by U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster, came Thursday during an event at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington marking the seventh anniversary of the start of the Syrian …

VOA – The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran held the first-ever quadrilateral meeting in Baku to discuss regional cooperation.