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Al-Arabia – The Arab Coalition said on Saturday that Iran-back Houthi militia in Yemen deliberately targeted the civilian communications infrastructure in southern Saudi Arabia on Friday evening. According to an Al Arabiya/AlHadath correspondent, the Houthi militia tried for the third time to target civilian communications with explosive-laden drones. The Houthis attempts coincide with strikes by the Arab Coalition that inflicted …

RFL/RE – Jailed Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died in a hospital in Tehran, the Iranian Writers Association has reported. Abtin’s death, which was announced on January 8, came after the 48-year-old was recently placed in a medically induced coma while attempting to recover from a severe case of COVID-19. Abtin suffered from coronary heart disease, and after …

Iranwire – On January 6, a deadline set by four foreign nations for Tehran to join talks over reparations for the Flight 752 disaster officially passed. Prior to this, it has emerged, the Islamic Republic had already stated its unwillingness to engage. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the countries that make up the International Coordination and Response Group for Flight 752 – Canada, Ukraine, …

gatestoneinstitute.org – No amount of appeasement and no deal is going to change the core pillars of the Iranian mullahs’ revolutionary principles, which include anti-Americanism, antisemitism, supporting terror groups, and brutally repressing their own population. The theocratic establishment uses international and regional agreements, such as its election last April to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to advance its revolutionary ideals. …

RFL/RE – Iran said on January 7 that it is prepared to meet bilaterally with countries whose nationals died in Iran’s accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet two years ago, but it couched the offer in defiant terms that echoed days of denials after the tragedy played out in the skies over Tehran. The statement by the Iranian Foreign …