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irishtimes – The Trump administration has issued a stark warning to the United States’s closest European allies, threatening to sharply penalise European governments or companies that continue to do business with Iran.

washingtonexaminer – The commander of Iran’s special operations Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, recently posted a controversial image to his Instagram account. It features Soleimani himself holding a walkie-talkie while the White House is engulfed in flames behind him. The caption reads, “We will crush the USA under our feet.”

Radiofarda – The families of people detained in Iran on false charges joined forces for the first time on Wednesday to call on world leaders meeting in New York to help bring their relatives home.

Al-Arabia – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that his country will remain in the 2015 nuclear pact “as long as the deal serves our interests” and that Tehran had no intention to go to war with US forces in the Middle East. 

Iran-HRM – Report on arbitrary arrests, torture and cruel treatment of protest detainees