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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – More than a dozen rights organisations including Iran Human Rights condemned the appointment of the Islamic Republic as Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Social Forum of the Human Rights Council.  “We are also profoundly disappointed by other regional groups’ failure to offer alternatives to this nomination by proposing their own candidates.” The statement calls on the United …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Finance Minister Ehsan Khandouzi landed in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday, two months into a Chinese-brokered deal that ended a seven-year hiatus in Tehran-Riyadh relations.   According to the state-run IRNA news agency, the minister will discuss bilateral trade while also delivering speeches at a summit of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.   As the first Iranian official …

Al-Monitor — The recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran hasn’t stopped Tehran from sending weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said Thursday.  Tehran and Riyadh, which back opposing sides in Yemen’s civil war, agreed in March to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their respective embassies shuttered in 2016. Lenderking told reporters that the United States …

iranintl.com – The Swedish Parliament voted in favor of designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization today [May 10]. It followed the execution this week of Swedish-Iranian Habib Chaab (Asyud) which saw Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summon Iran’s charge d’affaires in protest of the execution, one of hundreds since the start of the year. Iran’s relations with Sweden …

RFL/RE – Tehran’s prosecutor has filed charges against the Jahan Sanat newspaper after it published a report on the increasing trade of body parts in Iran due to the deteriorating economic conditions hitting households across the country. The Judiciary Media Center on May 9 cited the reason for the charges as the newspaper’s failure to provide evidence and documentation regarding the “fabricated …