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RFL/RE – An unnamed U.S. official has told Fox News that Iran has test fired a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile, which if confirmed would likely add to already high tensions between Washington and Tehran.Fox late on July 25 quoted another senior U.S. administration official as saying that “we are aware of reports of a projectile launched from Iran and have …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he would be willing to go to Tehran to address the Iranian people and explain how their leaders’ actions have “harmed” their country.“Sure, if that’s the call, [I’ll] happily go there,” Pompeo told Bloomberg Television on July 25 in a wide-ranging interview that also addressed the North Korea crisis and Turkey’s …

gatestoneinstitute,org – Jack Straw’s misunderstanding, perhaps caused by his “absolute infatuation” with his imaginary Iran, has three aspects. The first is that he thinks that because Iran is an ancient civilization — and has produced great poets, weaves exquisite carpets and offers one of the world’s hautes cuisines — it deserves indulgence for its weird activities in other domains such as hostage-taking, …

Radiozamaneh – The Swedish Trade Union Platform for Iran has condemned the continued detention of those arrested on May Day 2019 and Teacher’s Day protests in Iran. The Amnesty International Poster about the continued imprisonment of Neda Naji, Anisha Asadollahi and Atefeh Rangriz. The poster says in Persian: “In prison for protesting on Labor Day.” On 25 July, in a …

VOA — Britain has started sending a warship to accompany all British-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a change in policy announced Thursday after the government previously said it did not have resources to do so. Tensions have spiked between Iran and Britain since last Friday when Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker in the world’s most important waterway for oil …