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Radiofarda – Speaking at an online event with the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien outlined how U.S.-Iranian relations would move forward if Donald Trump won a second term in office. Responding to a question raised by Stephen Hadley, the National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush who was moderating the discussion, O’Brien said that …

Radiofarda – The Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s influential Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy, Mojtaba Zonnour, said that President Hassan Rouhani deserves to be executed a thousand times a day, and that the Iranian people would agree with his views. In a tweet on Friday, Zonnour wrote, “The Rt. Hon. Rouhani; if you are justifying negotiations with the …

Radiofarda – The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) of Greater Tehran, Mohammad Reza Yazdi, announced the formation of a special coronavirus-related unit called “Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil.” The unit will deal with people who are inattentive to observing health protocols in public places, said Brigadier General Yazdi, who commands the Tehran province’s IRGC forces. …

RFL/RE – The United States has threatened to sanction any individual or entity selling conventional weapons to Iran, hours after Tehran claimed that a UN embargo on such sales had been lifted. According to a 2015 landmark nuclear deal, world powers had agreed to lift the UN embargo on Iran effective October 18, 2020, if Tehran abided by its terms. …

RFL/RE – Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator has arrived in neighboring Iran as intra-Afghan peace negotiations are under way in the Gulf state of Qatar. Negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban have been locked in talks since September 12 but have been unable to agree on a framework for the negotiations aimed at ending the 19-year war. Abdullah Abdullah, …