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Al-Arabia – At least three anti-government protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Iraq, officials said Tuesday, as authorities tried to reopen the country’s main port, which had been blocked by demonstrators for three days. Security and medical officials said a protester was killed and eight more were wounded in Umm Qasr, a key oil terminal …

Iran-HRM – The commander of state security forces in southwestern Abadan city said that 18 businesses have been sealed-off for not observing Islamic rituals and law. The state-run IRNA news agency cited Colonel Seyyed Mohsen Taghizadeh as saying that the monitoring public places police of Abadan is going to implement a plan to ramp up control of businesses. The plan …

RFL/RE – The United States has slapped sanctions on nine people connected to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among them his chief of staff, one of his sons, and the head of Iran’s judiciary.The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement on November 4 that Washington also sanctioned Iranian armed forces General Staff. The Treasury’s announcement on November 4 came as …

VOA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Tuesday that Iran would begin injecting gas into centrifuges at its Fordo facility, the latest in steps that go against what it agreed to in a 2015 agreement on its nuclear program. Rouhani said the injection of uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges was set to start Wednesday. The text of the nuclear deal …

gatestoneinstitute.org – What Iran evidently wants is to see Arabs protesting against the US and Israel — and against nothing else. It now remains to be seen whether the Arabs who have finally woken up to realize that Iran — and not Israel — is the real threat to their well-being will be able to keep up the momentum and …