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Al-Arabia – Britain, France, Germany and the United States will not push for a resolution against Iran at next week’s meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog’s board despite Tehran’s failure to explain uranium traces found at three sites, diplomats said on Friday. A resolution could have prompted an escalation between Tehran and the West that would have jeopardized talks on reviving the …

Al-Arabia – The Iran-backed Houthi militia continues to block progress towards reaching a ceasefire in Yemen, the US State Department said Friday after its top diplomat for the war-torn country returned to Washington. “The Houthis continue a devastating offensive on Marib that is condemned by the international community and leaves the Houthis increasingly isolated,” the State Department said in a statement following Special Envoy …

Iranwire – The National Coronavirus Taskforce has sought to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Iran through one week of restrictions and a travel ban. But the latter only applies to private vehicles moving between provinces, meaning that would-be travellers have inevitably been mobbing bus terminals instead. Meanwhile, Iran’s vaccination campaign in Iran is still progressing too slowly. According to …

Iranwire – The armed forces in Iran entered the country’s economic sphere after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, with the assent of Ali Khamenei. Since then the military has gained considerable wealth and an array of private companies; by owning weapons, it has become a mafia in its own right in the Islamic Republic. The commercial activities of Iran’s …

Iranwire – The Iranian warship Kharg, which caught fire and sank in the port of Jask earlier this week, was the country’s largest naval vessel and one of the last ever military acquisitions of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran. Efforts to recover the stricken vessel were pronounced over on Wednesday, June 2 and the ship finally sank beneath the …