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Al-Arabia – Usually the Iranian media compete to broadcast news of Houthi infiltrations against the Yemeni people or the Arab countries, starting from besieging Yemeni cities and starving people there, to the launch of Iranian-made ballistic missiles against Saudi Arabia. But with the latest developments during the past 24 hours in Sanaa, the media and its officials are keeping silent, …

RFL/RE – Ankara has urged Washington to drop federal charges against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader and a banker who are accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on November 27 that the case against Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab and banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla had “no legal basis” and should be “dropped or terminated.” …

PayvandNews – Famed Iranian photo-journalist Shahrokh Hatami, who began his career as a journalist for an Iranian newspaper, has died in France at age 89.

RFL/RE – Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned the European Union not to meddle with its missile development program.

Forbes – They say a news event has a three-day lifespan. The regime in Tehran is counting on such a theory to have the international community move on after the recent earthquake that shook western Iran. Each passing day further reveals the scope of this vast catastrophe.

BBC – Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has called Iran’s supreme leader “the new Hitler of the Middle East”, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Alluding to Iran’s growing regional power, Mohammed bin Salman said it was important to avoid a repeat “of what happened in Europe in the Middle East”. Saudi Arabia and Iran are rivals and have increasingly …

RFL/RE – Iran and its ally, the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hizballah, are denying accusations from Saudi Arabia and its allies that they are arming rebel groups and destabilizing the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasem said the accusations are “full of lies” on November 20, the day after Arab League foreign ministers accused Iran of “aggression” against Arab …

RFL/RE – An Israeli cabinet minister has indicated that Israel has had secret contacts with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries over their mutual concerns about Iran, an apparent first acknowledgment by a senior official about covert dealings. Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz made the comments on November 19 during an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, but he did not …

RFL/RE – Iran’s envoy to Britain said on November 17 that Britain plans to transfer more than 400 million pounds ($527 million) soon to settle a debt from the 1970s. Ambassador Hamid Baeedinejad made the announcement in a statement posted to his Telegram social-media account, saying there was no link between the debt payment and the issue of an Iranian-British …

RFL/RE – Iran has criticized French policy in the Middle East, saying it is stoking regional crises because Paris is “biased and partisan.”