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RFL/RE – Four Israeli women who sent pictures and other information to an Iranian operative have been accused of spying for Iran, Israel’s domestic intelligence service said. The women, who were all Jewish immigrants from Iran according to local media, were indicted for “serious crimes” over the past month, Shin Bet said in a statement on January 12. The Iranian …

Iranwire – The head of the IRGC Aerospace Force has claimed that Hassan Rouhani was reprimanded in front of top generals during his tenure as president and warned not to “defame” the Revolutionary Guards. In a newly-published interview with the ultraconservative Kayhannewspaper, Amir Ali Hajizadeh described a behind-closed-doors meeting between Rouhani and IRGC commanders Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ghasem Soleimani, Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar and Ismail …

Iranwire – Recently, a video resurfaced and was shared by the BBC depicting former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani giving a speech. The subject is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the date of the recording unknown. In the video, Rafsanjani tells an assembled group of clerics that Khamenei had once told him he found leadership “suffocating”.  In fact, he says, Khamenei had told …

VOA — Iran, Venezuela and Sudan are in arrears on paying dues to the United Nations’ operating budget and are among eight nations that will lose their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N. chief said in a letter circulated Wednesday. Also losing voting rights are Antigua and Barbuda, Republic of Congo, Guinea, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, Secretary-General …

VOA – Iran and the United States are displaying little flexibility on core issues in indirect nuclear talks, raising questions about whether a compromise can be found soon to renew a 2015 deal that could dispel fears of a wider Middle East war, diplomats say. After eight rounds of talks, the thorniest points remain the speed and scope of lifting …