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Al-Monitor – Providing landlocked Central Asia with shipping access through Iran’s southeastern Chabahar port has been a hot topic since the fall of the Soviet Union. With China’s One Belt One Road initiative in recent years and investment by Central Asian countries in the new transit routes, Iran faces more challenges than ever to utilize the potential of Chabahar.

Al-Monitor – After 40 years and some last-minute power plays and wrangling between President Hassan Rouhani’s administration and conservatives in the police force, Iranian women were allowed to enter Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch a televised World Cup match, between Iran and Spain, alongside men.

Radiofarda – Iranian officials opened the doors of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to women after forty years, Wednesday evening, June 20, making headlines around the world.

gatestoneinstitute – Most alarming to the U.S. has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s position on Iran, where the regime seems to want to increase its influence in Canada due to its proximity to the U.S. Trudeau has been enabling this penetration.

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have arrested a lawyer for spreading “lies” after claiming that a Sufi man executed this week was wrongfully convicted of killing three police officers, local media report. The semiofficial Fars news agency said on June 20 that an arrest warrant was issued against Zeinab Taheri for making “false statements” and because of “her lies propagated online …