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Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the UN Security Council on June 30 to extend an arms embargo on Iran, warning allowing it to expire in October would cause instability in the Middle East. “Don’t just take it from me or the United States, listen to countries in the region, from Israel, the Gulf, countries in the …

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s parliament, Majles, says that the Board of Directors of the legislative body has so far received about 100 requests for forming parliamentary factions. Alireza Salimi, who is also a member of the parliament’s presidium, added that while the number of requests is increasing, some lawmakers have even proposed launching a “garlic and lentil” parliamentary …

Radiofarda – A lawyer and activist loyal to the Islamic Republic has announced that the Revolutionary Court in the city of Shiraz sentenced him to a two-year suspended sentence for a critical remark about Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Charged with “insulting” the Supreme Leader, the young attorney, Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi has also been condemned to sixty trips to his hometown, …

Radiofarda -In May 2018, when the world learned that Iran had concealed a secret nuclear weapons archive before, during and after negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), supporters of the nuclear deal were quick to excuse Iran’s nuclear prevarication. Two years later, with Iran in full breach of its JCPOA commitments, mounting evidence of undeclared nuclear material …

RFL/RE – Faezeh Hashemi, a former Iranian lawmaker and the daughter of one of the founders of the Islamic Republic says Iran is neither a religious government, nor a revolutionary state. Taking part in a question and answer program moderated by prominent Iranian academic Abbas Milani, the director of Stanford University’s Program in Iranian Studies via video teleconference Hashemi discussed issues relating …