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Al-Arabia – Iran on Monday summoned the German ambassador to protest last week’s UN Human Rights Council decision, based on a resolution co-sponsored by Berlin, to probe Iran’s response to nationwide protests. It is the third time since the demonstrations started more than two months ago that Tehran has called in Berlin’s representative to the Islamic Republic. The nationwide protests …

Al-Arabia -Accusations by the United States that Iran was behind an attack on a tanker in the Gulf of Oman are baseless, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday. The Liberian-flagged Pacific Zircon was struck by a projectile off the coast of Oman which the US central command identified as an Iranian-made drone.

Al-Arabia – Iran will reject a newly-appointed independent UN investigation into the country’s repression of anti-government protests, the foreign ministry said on Monday, as demonstrations showed no sign of abating.“Iran will have no cooperation with the political committee formed by the UN Rights Council,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said. The UN Rights Council voted on Thursday to appoint a probe …

Iranwire – The U.S. football federation has temporarily displayed the Iranian national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, in a show of show solidarity with protesters in Iran. The move came before the United States faces Iran on November 29 in a World Cup match amid decades of enmity between the countries and a nationwide …

Iranwire – “Did you know?” is the title of a series of new IranWire reports. We will collect, analyse, calculate and compare data from reliable sources and will produce an infographic. The aim of these reports is to draw a clear picture of events in Iran.  *** Did you know that the Islamic Republic has suppressed approximately one widespread anti-government protest every four …