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Al-Arabia – Akram al-Kaabi, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite militia al-Nujaba which participated in the recent Aleppo offensive, met with Iranian Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the militia’s website reported on Saturday. The meeting comes after Kaabi described the supporters of the Syrian revolution as ‘Yazid’s grandsons’ who are besieging ‘Hussein’s grandsons’ in the towns of Kefraya and …

Amnesty – Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have pressured British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a prisoner of conscience, to choose between moving her two-year-old daughter into prison with her for up to three days a week or sign a document to say that she does not want the “right to be with her young daughter”. View report in English: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1353642016ENGLISH.pdf

PayvandNews – The Iranian flag carrier, Iran Air, says it has finalized a much-awaited contract with the European aviation giant Airbus to purchase 100 aircraft. Iran Air will receive seven or eight planes from Airbus in 2017, Farhad Parvaresh, the managing director of the airline told reporters on Sunday. Parvaresh said a delegation of Airbus representatives have been in Tehran …

RFL/RE – Reports from Tehran say Iran has requested a meeting of a commission that oversees the implementation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to Tehran’s claims that the United States has violated the agreement. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on December 17 that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif requested the meeting in a letter …

PayvandNews – During a visit to Tehran, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has expressed satisfaction with Iran’s commitment to its obligations under the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. “Iran has been committed to its obligations and this is an important matter,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Director General Yukiya Amano said on Sunday at a …