Social and Political

Iranwire – According to an official report by the Iranian police, the country is on the route of human trafficking from its eastern neighbors to European countries, and human traffickers in Iran carry out their trade by air, land and sea. Frequently it is the Arab countries that import girls and women, who are often trafficked from Iran, and the …

Iranwire – A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the Iranian authorities. The Twitter storms, which have been called by the Baha’i International Community, will take place between 5pm and 6pm GMT under the …

Radiozameh – My cell phone vibrated, but I was busy. Later, it vibrated again. It was a WhatsApp message from a young Iranian friend also living in Germany. She had been living and working as a scientist in North Rhine-Westphalia for four years. She was asking me if I had time to meet her in town later that afternoon. My …

gatestoneinstitute.org – First, he must persuade Tehran to treat Iraq as an independent nation-state, not a glacis for the Islamic Republic in its campaign to “export revolution.” Revival of the 1977 trade accord could help end the current chaos and enable Tehran and Baghdad to secure income from tariffs and taxation. Setting mutually accepted rules on charities could also help …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Obama administration negotiated a nuclear deal (JCPOA) with the Iranian mullahs that was bad for the U.S. (which found it had only legitimized the regime that the U.S. Department of State called the “world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism”) and bad for Israel (the deal would allow Iran, after a few years, to become a full-blown nuclear …

RFL/RE – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has met with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, ahead of Tehran’s February 23 deadline to reduce United Nations inspections of the country’s nuclear facilities if U.S. sanctions are not lifted, Iranian media reported on February 21. Iran has said …

RFL/RE – The United States plans no additional actions in response to pressure from Tehran ahead of proposed talks on a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the White House said on February 19. The White House has “no plan to take additional steps” on Iran in advance of having a “diplomatic conversation” about a possible U.S. return to …

Iranwire – With the slow pace of vaccination and the spread of the highly contagious UK coronavirus variant to a number of cities, Iranians fear a new crisis. Borders between two Iranian provinces and neighboring Iraq have been closed and ICU beds in some populous cities such as Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan, are at capacity. Meanwhile Iran still does …

VOA – Iran is studying a European Union proposal for an informal meeting between current members of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal and the United States, but has yet to respond to it, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Saturday. Iran and the United States have been at odds over who should take the first step to revive the 2015 …

Al-Arabia – The Biden administration sought to extend an olive branch to Iran in order to entice Tehran back to talks on resuscitating the 2015 nuclear deal. Leaders in Iran quickly made clear it’s not going to be so easy. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. After the US said Thursday …