Social and Political

Radiofarda – Recent protests and unrest in the United States, treatment of protesters by U.S. law enforcement in comparison with Iran, and the approach of the highly censored Iranian media to the issue have become hot topics in Persian-language social media in the past few days. Regime supporters have been attacking dissidents who they say are always ranting about regime …

RFL/RE – A senior Iranian lawmaker said on June 1 that 230 people were killed in anti-government protests in Iran in November, state news agency IRNA reported.It is the first time that an Iranian lawmaker has given a death toll in the unrest, which was sparked by an increase in the price of petrol. The four days of unrest was …

RFL/RE – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other sectors after Iran sent five fuel tankers to the South American country.“I am obliged to go to personally thank the people,” Maduro said on June 1 in an address broadcast on state television. He did not provide a date for …

Al-Monitor – In today’s Iran media review, Iranian officials have called out the United States over its response to peaceful protests.  Protesters rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Portland, Oregon, US, May 31, 2020. Photo by REUTERS/Terray Sylvester. In a role reversal, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi issued a statement expressing support for protests …

Radiofarda – Two Iran Aseman Airlines (IAI) flights had to make emergency landings in Iran due to technical issues at Tehran Mehrabad Airport and Ahvaz Airport on Saturday and Sunday due to technical issues. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Sunday evening Seyed Mahdi Razzaz, Director-General of Khuzestan Province airports said flight 833 of Iran Aseman Airlines …

AFP -An air strike in eastern Syria on Sunday killed five non-Syrian fighters backed by Iran, a Britain-based war monitor said. The strike targeted three military vehicles belonging to Iran-backed paramilitary fighters near the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitor did not say who was behind the attack near the border town of Albu Kamal. …

Radiofarda – Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from a Ukrainian passenger plane shot down in January over Tehran, Transport Minister Marc Garneau says. As Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini international airport on January 8, heading for Kyiv, two Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ missiles …

Iran-HRM – Nearly seven months after Iranian authorities killed at least 1,500 protesters in November 2019, a senior regime official for the first time admitted to the killing of around 200 protesters. While downplaying the real number of the death toll, the regime’s interior minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on May 30 that the number of those killed was around 200.In an …

RFL/RE – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Musavi says Tehran will continue to export fuel to Venezuela if the South American country requests more supplies. Both Iran and Venezuela are under U.S. sanctions and Washington has sought to deter such shipments. “Iran practices its free trade rights with Venezuela and we are ready to send more ships if Caracas demands …

VOA – The arrival in Venezuela of five Iranian oil tankers is expected to ease the South American nation’s gasoline crisis, while challenging U.S. sanctions targeting both countries.   The Iranian fuel tankers began arriving in Venezuela last week under the protection of Venezuelan military forces, with the fifth cargo reportedly arriving on Sunday. Venezuela’s oil sector has been acutely damaged by …