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Al-Monitor – Iran and Iraq signed an export agreement today.  Iran signed a $4 billion contract related to the export of technical and engineering services with Iraq. The purpose of the agreement is to make up for the decrease in Iranian non-electricity exports to Iraq. From March to November of this year, such exports decreased $1.4 billion to $4.7 billion. The reason …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi described the public protests that have gripped his country since mid-September as “yet another disgraceful miscalculation” by “the enemy.” Raisi made his comments in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, one of the epicenters of the ongoing unrest in which scores of protesters have been killed, according to rights groups, and thousands more languish behind bars, awaiting hefty sentences. “The enemies were under …

RFL/RE – FIFA has given permission for the display of banners supporting protests in Iran and rainbow items at the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar — but only after the Middle Eastern country was eliminated from the competition. Since the start of the World Cup on November 20, stadium security staff organized by Qatari authorities had confiscated items with …

RFL/RE – Hossein Sadeghi, the father of imprisoned Iranian activist Arash Sadeghi, has again warned about his son’s deteriorating state of health and called on countries around the world to press Tehran to release him. Arash Sadeghi, who has been imprisoned several times, is suffering from bone cancer and his father says the prison authorities have prevented him from accessing …

RFL/RE – Sunni clerics of the southern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan have released a video calling on authorities of the Islamic republic to stop a deadly crackdown on protests that has “no justificiation.” The video, released on November 29, shows the signatories of the statement together in a mosque. According to the statement, the Sunni clerics of the southeastern …