Social and Political

Radiofarda – Iran’s Armed Forces General Command said in a statement on Monday that cyber-threats from “any government, group or person and at any level” will be “mightily reciprocated,” warning about cyber operations from foreign countries in “political, economic, social or cultural” areas, including elections. Iranian authorities have admitted on several occasions that the country’s online infrastructure had been targeted …

RFL/RE – Iran has reacted angrily to the United Arab Emirates’ decision to normalize ties with Israel, a move that could increase pressure on Tehran amid suggestions by U.S. and Israeli officials that other Persian Gulf states could follow suit. Iranian President Hassan Rohani blasted de facto U.A.E. leader Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed’s reported pledge, which follows a de-escalation with …

VOA – The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized her nation’s Islamist rulers for ordering the couple’s son to go to prison for protesting the Iranian military’s January shoot-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, saying the wrong people were being imprisoned for the incident.   Fatemeh Maleki announced in an August 11 Instagram post that authorities had summoned her son Ali Nourizad to report …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Nasrin Sotoudeh’s daughter, Mehraveh Khandan was detained for hours by security forces today. Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on hunger strike in protest to the treatment of political prisoners since August 11. IHR strongly condemns the authorities’ escalation of pressure on Nasrin Sotoudeh and other human rights defenders by harassing their …

gatestoneinstitute.org – By holding a political protest at the compound of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinians are not only desecrating the sanctity of the site, but also sending a warning to citizens of UAE not to visit Jerusalem or the mosque, as many apparently hoped to do. The Joint Statement of the United States, Israel, and the UAE on August 13 …

Guardian.com – A first-hand account of Britain’s role in the 1953 coup that overthrew the elected prime minister of Iran and restored the shah to power has been published for the first time. The account by the MI6 officer who ran the operation describes how it took British intelligence years to persuade the US to take part in the coup. Meanwhile, MI6 recruited agents …

Radiofarda – As the overall index of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) fell sharply for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday, the Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani tried to instill optimism saying, “corrective fluctuations in the stock market are normal.” After the fall of 65,000 points of the TSE index on Tuesday and about 25,000 on Wednesday last week, Tehran …

Al-Arabia – United States President Donald Trump isn’t expected to leave NATO due of the presence of “allies such as Poland and other Eastern European countries” that are going against Russia, Michael Pregent, a former US intelligence officer, told Al Arabiya on Sunday. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. He also clarified that …

Radiofarda — The UAE on Sunday summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Abu Dhabi to protest “threats” by the Islamic republic’s president over the Emirati decision to normalise ties with Israel, state media reported. The foreign ministry “summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires (and) handed him a strong note of protest against the threats contained in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech regarding …

Radiofarda – Following the recent bilateral talks with Iran concerning compensation for the victims of Flight PS752 downed in February by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that Ukraine will not make any compromise that will humiliate the victims of the tragedy or fail to satisfy their relatives’ demands. Kuleba made the remarks during an interview with …