Thursday , 28 March 2024

Social and Political

US assessing military responses to Iran-backed attacks in Middle East

alarabiya – US defense and military officials have been deliberating over a response to Iran-backed attacks across the Middle East as they await the green light from the Biden administration, according to officials and sources familiar with the matter. US forces in Iraq and Syria have been targeted over 100 times since October 17, which was just 10 days after the deadly …

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Houthis Warn Maritime Coalition: Red Sea Will Be Your Graveyard

iranintl – Iran-backed Houthis threatened on Tuesday to ‘sink’ US warships, hours after Washington launched a multinational force to protect vessels transiting the Red Sea. “We have capabilities to sink your fleet, your submarines, your warships,” a top Houthi official said, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency. “The Red Sea will be your graveyard.” The new maritime coalition includes Britain, Canada, …

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Jordan Stops Infiltration By Iran-Backed Drug Smugglers

iranintl – Jordan’s army foiled a plot on Monday by dozens of infiltrators from Syria linked to pro-Iranian militias, who crossed its border with rocket launchers and explosives. Jordan’s State broadcaster said the army blew up a vehicle laden with explosives as it resisted the biggest armed cross-border operation to smuggle weapons and drugs in recent years. The army earlier …

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Iran Ultra-Hardliners Push To Bring Ahmadinejad Back To Politics

iranintl – The leader of Iran’s ultra-hardliner Paydari Party is paving the way for the return of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to politics, one of his former aides claims. In an interview with the conservative Khabar Online, excerpts of which were published Monday, Abdolreza Davari alleged that the Secretary General of Paydari, Sadegh Mahsouli, in a recent interview, has signaled to …

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Issues Persist at Iran’s Gas Stations After Hack

Iranwire – Fuel pumps in Iran are reportedly back online a day after a cyberattack paralyzed gas stations across the country, but less than half of stations are still able to take subsidized fuel cards. The CEO of National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, Jafar Salari Nesab, said on December 19 that “almost all” gas stations are operational, though only …

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Jailed Iranian Journalists Join Khatereh Hakimi in Singing

Iranwire – In a powerful act of defiance, Iranian singer Khatereh Hakimi has shared a video of herself singing “Safarnak,” accompanied by three women journalists imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison. The video, which was posted on social media, shows Hakimi playing the guitar and singing. The journalists Nasim Sultanbeigi, Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi can also be heard singing over …

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Iran’s Climate Migration Crisis Could Turn Into National ‘Disaster’

RFL/RE – Record temperatures, prolonged droughts, and the drying up of rivers and lakes are displacing tens of thousands of Iranians each year, experts say. Many of the climate migrants are farmers, laborers, and fishermen who are moving with their families from the countryside to major urban areas in Iran in search of alternative livelihoods. To mark International Migrants Day …

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Appeal Verdict Due In Ex-Iranian Official’s Trial In Sweden

RFL/RE – A Swedish appeals court will announce on December 19 its verdict in the trial of a former Iranian prison official handed a life sentence in a lower court for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents. The verdict could have repercussions on the fate of Swedish prisoners in Iran, including EU diplomat Johan Floderus, who has been …

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Sunni Mosques Raided, Arrests Made in Iran’s Baluchistan

Iranwire – Tension was reportedly high in two predominantly Baluch cities in the southeastern Iranian province of Zahedan after armed forces stormed at least three Sunni mosques there and arrested an undisclosed number of people. The Campaign of Baluch Activists reported that two mosques were raided in the provincial capital of Zahedan on December 18, resulting in the arrest of …

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Khomeini, Aliyev, d’Estaing and the Golestan Palace Bugging

Iranwire – One of the lesser-known facts about Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, is his relationship and his close associates’ with the deputy commander of NATO before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and Heydar Aliyev, who later became the president of Azerbaijan.  Aliyev was reportedly associated with Khomeini during his time as an agent of the Soviet spy …

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