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Al-Monitor – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered an investigation April 27 into the leak of an audiotape containing containing confidential statements by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Government spokesman Ali Rabiee said Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has been assigned with identifying those behind the leak, which he said is being treated as a “conspiracy against national security.” Iranian officials have said the audio was part of an oral history …

Shabtabnews – Iran is, again, recommended as a Country of Particular Concern in the 2021 #USCIRFAnnualReport. Iran is, again, recommended as a Country of Particular Concern in the 2021 #USCIRFAnnualReport. @USCIRF_BauerRead more about religious freedom conditions in #Iran & recommendations to the US govt to address those concerns: https://t.co/L2oV3MQq6j pic.twitter.com/RO0sZiyPQJ— USCIRF (@USCIRF) April 27, 2021

realclearpolitics.com – Samantha Power, President Biden’s choice to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, literally wrote the book on America’s poor record of fighting genocides around the world even as the nation’s leaders have promised “never again” after the Holocaust. Power’s  “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” earned her a nonfiction book Pulitzer Prize in …

JPost – Leaked recordings are the latest twist in a strange saga that appears to pit Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani was undermining him and the Iran deal while working with Russia, he supposedly said on the tapes.The tapes appear to show Zarif claiming that Russia wanted to sabotage the …

Al-Arabia – Iran was strengthening its nuclear arsenal in 2020 by bolstering its weapons production whilst misleading the world by claiming the nature of their activities were peaceful, a new German intelligence report found. Germany’s government security agency, the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, issued the report, which has been translated from German by The Washington Free …