Social and Political

Al-Arabia – The US envoy for Iran warned Friday that Tehran was approaching the point of no return for reviving a nuclear deal after it boosted its stocks of enriched uranium before talks resume this month. Robert Malley said Iran risked making it “impossible” to gain any benefit from resuming the agreement, which has been on hold since then President Donald Trump …

Al-Arabia – The Iran-backed Houthis have yet to release the remaining Yemeni detainees employed by the US government, a State Department official said Friday. Meanwhile, the United Nations has slammed the group for its detention of locally employed staff and its breach of the US Embassy in Sanaa. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the very recent …

Al-Arabia – Three Iranian police have been killed this week, Tasnim news agency said Saturday, bringing to six the number of officers to have lost their lives in reported violence over the same period. On Friday, a captain was killed in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during a raid on a “base of armed robbers,” Tasnim reported. A day earlier, …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on November 20 they had seized a boat in the Persian Gulf for allegedly smuggling diesel. “A foreign ship, carrying smuggled diesel was seized,” Iranian media quoted Colonel Ahmad Hajian, commander of the Naval Type 412 Zulfaqar in the southern Parsian county, as saying. “After the inspection, more than 150,000 litres …

RFL/RE – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed on November 20 to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to counter its “dangerous use” of suicide drones in the Middle East, a pledge coming as Washington works to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. “The United States remains committed to preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. And we remain …

Iran-HRM – Iran children are the most vulnerable under the mullahs since they neither protect nor promote the rights of children. On the World Children’s Day, here is a brief glance on the plight of children in Iran. Poverty, hunger, child labor, child abuse, trafficking and sale of children and infants are among the hallmarks of Iranian children’s lives. Furthermore, the regime’s laws …

Al-Monitor – Thousands of Iranians gathered in the central city of Isfahan on Friday to demand the government address the drying up of the region’s most important river, state TV reported. In videos posted to social media, demonstrators are seen making their way through a dry riverbed on their way to the centuries-old Khaju Bridge over the Zayandeh Rood River. …

Al-Monitor – France warned Iran on Friday against staging “sham” talks when world powers resume negotiations on the landmark nuclear deal in Vienna later this month.  France, Iran and the other signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, are set to resume negotiations over the landmark nuclear accord in the Austrian capital on Nov. 29. They’re the …

Al-Arabia – The stated US aim when indirect US-Iranian talks resume this month is to see if the two can revive a 2015 nuclear deal, but Washington’s unspoken goal may be to win support from China and Russia to pressure Iran if the talks fail, diplomats said. Western diplomats have said time is running low to resurrect the pact, which then-US President …

Iranwire – On Friday, November 19, for the first time in 634 days, the doors of Azadi football stadium will be open to fans. Spectators have not been allowed to watch football matches in stadiums since February 23, 2020, when Iranian officials formally recognized that coronavirus was beginning to spread throughout Iran. When matches finally resumed, games were held without …