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Al-Arabia – US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking voiced cautious optimism for efforts to end the seven-year-long war on Tuesday but warned that “there’s more that needs to be done.” Lenderking, one of US President Joe Biden’s first appointments, recently returned from a three-week trip to the region. Since last year, he has been involved in shuttle diplomacy as the Biden …

Iranwire – Wei Fenghe, the Chinese defense minister, arrived in Tehran today for meetings with senior offiicers in the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic. The visit comes three months after the two governments announced that a widely-decried 25-year cooperation agreement had reached its “implementation phase” – despite having not been ratified by the Iranian parliament as it should have been. The …

Iranwire – Saeed Heleichi, a poet and translator from Ahvaz, announced on Thursday that he had received a threatening call from an unknown number for posting pictures of the depleted Karun River in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. The pictures posted by Heleichi were meant to raise awareness of environmental degradation in the border province, which last year was rocked by weeks-long mass …

Iranwire – Within the nexus of unaccountable bodies that make up the Iranian state, the Revolutionary Guards, the Foreign Ministry, Religious Endowments Organization and a number of others are also supporters of a virulent antisemitic supposed think-tank by the name of the Jewish Studies Center. Since its inception in 2016, the site has published more than 1,000 antisemitic articles, reports, comment …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Behnam Mousivand, a civil activist on hunger strike in Rajai Shahr Prison, was transferred to the quarantine ward of Evin Prison yesterday. He has been on hunger strike since April 19 and his health is reported to be in a deteriorating condition. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Behnam Mousivand was transferred to …