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Al-Arabia – Iran’s foreign minister’s criticism of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its late commander Qassem Soleimani in a leaked interview is an “unforgettable injustice,” the supreme leader’s representative in the IRGC said on Monday. In the leaked interview, aired last week by the London-based Iran International TV station, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif complained about having little …

Iranwire – The last time the US dollar traded at less than 22,000 tomans for two consecutive days was in late July 2020. Ever since then, save for one day (January 19, 2020), the price of the dollar has exceeded this value. On October 20 last year it hit a record high of 32,000 tomans, which then gradually subsided. A …

Iranwire – Last April, a man called Tareck El Aissami was appointed Minister of Oil in Venezuela by the Maduro regime. It came barely a month after this senior official, who has extensive ties to Hezbollah, was indicted in the US on narco-terrorism charges, with the Trump administration offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. How did this …

RFL/RE – The Swiss Foreign Ministry (FDFA) says an employee at its embassy in Iran has died in an accident, which Iranian news agencies said was a fall from a high-rise building just outside of Tehran. “The FDFA and its head Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis are shocked by the tragic death and express their deepest condolences to the family,” the …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities have threatened political prisoner Vahid Afkari, brother to executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari, that if he does not “confess” he will be killed. According to reports, two high-ranking officials met with Vahid Afkari and told him that he should do whatever they asked of him, including confessing to the murder, in order to be released, otherwise …