Social and Political

foxbusiness –  Fifteen Republican senators have written a letter to three major business and financial groups warning them against engaging with Iranian businesses if the Biden administration lifts sanctions to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.  The letter sent Tuesday to the heads of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Financial Services Forum and Business Roundtable was co-signed by Sens. Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Marco …

Al-Arabia – Iran is still the “greatest, single threat” to stability in the region, the top US general for the Middle East said Tuesday. “And they still pursue a wide variety of malign activities, both directly and through proxies, that threaten not only us but our friends and partners across the region,” head of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. Frank …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Last year, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted for the first time that his country was supplying the Palestinian terrorist groups with weapons….”Iran realized Palestinian fighters’ only problem was lack of access to weapons” — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Reuters, May 22, 2020. The [earlier] denial exposes the extent of Iran’s scheme to deceive the …

Iranwire – Furious protests broke out in the Iraqi governorate of Karbala this week after an activist was assassinated and a TV journalist shot in the head in attacks blamed on Iran-backed militias. On Sunday, May 9 unidentified gunmen murdered Ihab Jahad al-Wazni, a prominent civil rights campaigner, in front of his house in Karbala’s Al-Haddad Street. Al-Wazni had railed …

VOA – Iran’s former firebrand president will run again for office in upcoming elections in June, raising the possibility of a bolstered hardline leadership at a time of tense negotiations with the West.  Thronged by shouting supporters, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched to a registration center at the Interior Ministry where he filled out registration forms. He held up his hands in …

Iran-HRM – The spread of Covid-19 among nurses in Iran has become a disaster. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, the General Director of the Nurse’s House, announced in April that at least 130 nurses in Iran have died of the virus so far. He said nurses were being “massacred” in hospitals due to the vaccine delay. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam said that since …

Al-Monitor – The registration of candidates for Iran’s June 18 presidential election officially began in the country’s Interior Ministry headquarters May 11 and will continue for five days. According to Iranian media, on the very first day 57 hopefuls showed up for registration. Traditionally, candidates standing valid chances of victory hold off their appearance until only a few hours before the deadline. Yet at …

foreigndesknews – As the terrorist organization Hamas continues to indiscriminately fire hundreds of rockets into Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is encouraging Palestinians to continue the fight against the Jewish state. “There’s one destructive force behind all the recent violence in Israel and the region. The world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism – the regime in Iran,” said …

Reuters – France said on Tuesday that there had been some progress in negotiations related to Iran’s compliance on nuclear issues, but warned that there remained a lot still to do within a short time frame if efforts to revive a 2015 accord were to succeed. Talks resumed in Vienna on May 7 with the remaining parties to the deal …

timesofisrael – Some of the dozens of mortars and rockets fired into Israel by Gaza-based terrorists on Tuesday were made in Iran and smuggled into the Strip, the army said. In a statement, the army said that during the day more than 70 mortars and rockets were fired, with many intercepted. “Among the munitions fired at Israel were also rockets …