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Al-Arabia – Iran’s intelligence minister told Saudi Arabia that there is no guarantee of Tehran continuing what he described as its “strategy of patience,” state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. “In the case of Saudi Arabia, I say that our fate and that of other countries in the region are tied together due to our neighbourhood. From Iran’s point …

RFL/RE – Iran has for the first time admitted that it sent “a small number” of drones to Russia, but it said they were supplied months before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Kyiv and its Western allies have accused Russian forces of using Iranian-made combat drones to destroy civilian infrastructure in Ukraine in recent weeks. Following Iran’s admission, Ukrainian …

RFL/RE – Tehran says German criticism of the country’s crackdown on protests shows Berlin is choosing confrontation over diplomacy. Reacting to statements by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock that Germany supports protesters across Iran who have taken to the streets over the death of a young woman while in police custody, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter on November 10 that …

RFL/RE – Amid nationwide protests in Iran, security forces have arrested at least two Spanish nationals who are still in detention. According to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), 41-year-old Santiago Sanchez was arrested in Saghez after visiting Mahsa Amini’s burial place. HRANA has identified the second individual as Ana Baneira, 24, who was arrested and jailed in …

VOA — Protests in Iran raged on streets into Thursday with demonstrators remembering a bloody crackdown in the country’s southeast, even as the nation’s intelligence minister and army chief renewed threats against local dissent and the broader world. Meanwhile, a top official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed it had “managed to achieve” having so-called hypersonic missiles, without providing any …