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Iran conducts large-scale drills amid flaring tensions with US

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting a series of large-scale military drills in Persian Gulf waters west of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic passageway to some 20% of the global oil trade. According to the IRGC official website, Sepah News, the exercise is meant to evaluate the “operation preparedness and coordination” among different units, including naval …

Booming stock market in Iran is a national security project

atlanticcouncil.org – On June 28, President Hassan Rouhani, referring to US sanctions and the coronavirus outbreak, explained the state of the Iranian economy in simple words: “The economic pressure began in 2018 and today we are facing the most immense economic pressure.” On July 8, Health Minister Saeed Namaki provided a clearer picture. The reopening of the economy “was not over our …

A China-Iran partnership would make China the Middle East arbiter

thehill.com – If President Obama succeeded in bringing Israel and the Gulf Arabs closer together in the face of their common Iranian enemy, President Trump is on the verge of successfully bringing China and Iran together in the face of their own common enemy — the United States. As has been widely reported, the Iranian parliament is reviewing a 25-year agreement between Tehran and …

Calling for Signatories on Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Sign-On Letter

Shabtabnews – IRF Roundtable Congressional Working Group’s first call for signatures on a letter supporting the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Please see below for the IRF Roundtable Congressional Working Group’s first call for signatures on a letter supporting the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Congressional Working Group asks for your signatures on a letter asking members of Congress to co-sponsor the Uyghur …

Coronavirus: Iran sees record of 235 COVID-19 deaths over past 24 hours

Al-Arabia – Iran registered a record 235 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, according to official health ministry figures released on Tuesday. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section. The Islamic Republic is the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic in the Middle East, and COVID-19 infections and deaths have risen sharply since …

Iranwire – Taraneh Alidoosti, Mustafa Al-Ahmad, Bahareh Hedayat, Narges Mohammadi, Arash Sadeg…

iranintl – Fifteen former Iran hostages have censured the Swedish government for “lack of mean…

iranintl – Actress Taraneh Alidoosti and filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad have been diagnosed with d…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has executed three more prisoners, including…

Iranwire – As protests erupted against the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, the T…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a disabled man to four years in prison for ̶…

Iranwire – The police commander of the Islamic Republic revealed that 32 agencies are responsi…

Iranwire – Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has condemned the deat…

Iranwire – Local sources in Sistan and Baluchistan province reported on April 25 that six Iran…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire n…

VOA – The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones…

Iran Human Rights – Ali Khoshavaz, a man on death row for drug-related charges, and Shahram Sh…

iranintl – As much of the global media scrambled to decode where Iranians stand on the escalat…

.iranintl – Two weeks into the latest round of violent crackdowns on Iranian women refusing to…

iranintl – An increasing number of Iranian politicians, media outlets, and senior clerics are …

Iranwire – The death sentence handed down to protest rapper Toomaj Salehi has sparked a wave o…

Iranwire – A new report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center has named Sistan and…

Iranwire – The Dadban legal group has issued a grave warning regarding the imminent execution …

Iranwire – Forty nurses and operating room staff of a Tehran hospital have collectively resign…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran executed four prisoners as death penalties continue to…

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