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Al-Arabia – Iran’s Mahan Air has been forced to cancel its Paris flights over “sanctions”, its customer services team said Tuesday weeks after Germany banned the airline. “We have been told that (flights to France) have been cancelled… as of the first of April,” an operator at the airline’s office in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport told AFP. The Paris schedule …

VOA -U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the Middle East for regional security talks in Kuwait, Israel and Lebanon as Washington looks to draw new support in its opposition to Iranian aggression. The top U.S. diplomat arrived Wednesday in Kuwait City, where he said he plans to discuss U.S. strategic plans in the region and energy issues with …

VOA – A senior U.S. official says Washington is monitoring ships involved in clandestine transfers of Iranian oil and will hold anyone involved in such transfers responsible for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. “We are closely tracking ship-to-ship transfers of [Iranian] oil to evade our oil sanctions,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions David …

Raziozamaneh – “Mosaddeq occupies a special place in the Iranian collective memory: he is widely regarded as a man of integrity and courage, a  statesman who consistently adhered to the ethical and political principles that he publicly advocated;  a secular democratic constitutionalist who, throughout his political life,  maintained that in a constitutional representative polity, legitimacy rests on popular sovereignty, that …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A part of the 11th Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, by IHR, deals with public executions in the country. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE (pdf)  Despite continuous international criticism, Iran is among the few countries where public executions have been organized by the authorities. Public executions have repeatedly been criticized by the …