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AL-Monitor – During a Dec. 16 televised speech attended by various government officials, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a number of problems the country is facing, including the nuclear deal and sanctions.  This was Khamenei’s first public appearance since Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump. President-elect Biden has said he would return to the nuclear deal that was signed by the United States in 2015, known …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Hamas’s call on Moroccans to revolt against their leaders contradicts its own declared policy that it does not intervene in the internal affairs of the Arab countries. “Hamas does not meddle in the internal affairs of Arab and Muslim countries,” said senior Hamas official Salah Bardaweel. If true, why is Hamas denouncing Morocco’s decision to establish relations with …

Iranwire.com -The parents of Ruhollah Zam, the dissident journalist executed on December 12, have gathered at their son’s grave to deliver a message: “The world rose up against your oppression.” Photographs of the couple at their son’s grave have been shared widely on both Persian and English-language social media sites. On December 16, Mohammad Ali Zam, Zam’s father, announced on Instagram that the family …

Iranwire.com – Although the ruling clerics of Iran have been promoting their values and beliefs for more than 40 years, they are increasingly expressing their concern about the decline of these beliefs among Iranians. Recently, a quarterly journal affiliated with the Ministry of Islamic Guidance described lifestyles in the city of Tehran into five categories – unrestricted, unfavorable, deviant, religious, favourable, …

Iranwire.com – The brother and father of Navid Afkari, a wrestler executed in September, have been arrested by intelligence agents. A source told IranWire that Hossein Afkari and his son Hamid were cleaning the area around Navid’s grave when they were detained on the morning of December 17 and taken to an undisclosed location. Navid Afkari was executed in secret …