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Al-Monitor – The Lead: US Intel community assesses the threats from Iran and Russia US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Director of Central Intelligence William Burns and other top national security officials are testifying this week before the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence on the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, the unclassified “collective insights” about “the most direct, serious threats to the …

Al-Monitor – After a brief trip back to Tehran for consultations, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani has returned to Vienna this morning to resume talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. He met this morning with Enrique Mora, deputy secretary general of the European External Action Service.  According to an IRNA report on Bagheri Kani’s trip to Tehran, consultations and …

RFL/RE – Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi says she refuses to return to prison to continue her sentence despite receiving a summons by authorities. Mohammadi spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda on March 8 while on medical leave from prison to recover from a recent surgery for blocked arteries. Before her procedure, she was serving her sentence at the …

Iranwire – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed the killing of two IRGC colonels in Syria by an Israeli missile strike. Ehsan Karbalaipour and Morteza Saeednejad were killed on Tuesday in a bombardment on  the outskirts of Damascus attributed to Israel by the Syrian official news agency SANA. In a statement posted on its website, the Iranian Foreign Ministry identified the …

Iranwire – The Khaneh Khorshid, or Sun House, one of the first drug addiction treatment centers for women in the most underprivileged part of Tehran, and one of just 28 non-governmental women’s shelters in Iran, is about to close its doors after 15 years. The center was established in 2007 by two women, Leila Arshad and Sorour Monshizadeh, and has since …