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Iranwire – The Iranian Intelligence Ministry confirmed on Wednesday it has arrested two Europeans in the run-up to a visit by European Union envoy Enrique Mora. The pair’s identities and nationalities were not given. In a statement, the Ministry said they were professionals in “creating riots” and had come to Iran to stir up “chaos, social disorder and instability”. It …

Iranwire – On Saturday, May 7, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri reported that the government plans to repeal all domestic food and fuel subsidies, apparently without a Plan B. The report predicted that after the recent repeal of flour subsidies, the next to be axed could be cooking oil, followed by gasoline. The Raisi administration knew from the get-go that it was running …

Iranwire- Last week a delegation from Iran headed by Oil Minister Javad Oji and Mohammad Javad Bavand, head of the National Oil Refining and Distribution Company, arrived in Nicaragua on a mission to strengthen Tehran’s commercial presence in the country. It formed part of a larger tour of friendly countries on the continent that saw the group sign eight memoranda …

VOA – The daughter of Iran’s former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces prosecution over social media comments on the Revolutionary Guards and the Prophet Mohammed, the judiciary said Tuesday. Faezeh Hashemi, 59, is “summoned by the prosecutor over these two affairs,” judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodayian told a news conference, quoted by the service’s Mizan Online website. Khodayian referred to “remarks …

Iran-HRM – Internet outages, arrests, and the presence of state security forces throughout the Khuzestan Province have continued after people came to the streets to protest skyrocketing prices of essential goods. On Friday and Saturday evenings, May 6 and 7, 2022, the people of Khuzestan Province, came to the streets in the cities of Ahvaz, Izeh, Baghmalek, and Susangerd, protesting …