Esmaeil Mohades
In its entire 40 years, Iran’s regime had never hit such a low point; which is acknowledged by some of the officials themselves.
Just recently, President Hassan Rouhani stated that “it’s hard to say if we’re having it tougher today or back in war time; back then we at least didn’t have issues with banking, oil sales, and other imports or exports; back then our only struggle was on weapon limitations”.
By Pooya Stone
“We are in a very difficult situation now; more difficult than can be imagined “– said Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president.
This statement alone shows just how sensitive the regime’s current situation is. Last year’s revolution was when it all started; when the world witnessed Iranians rallying on the streets and calling for the regime’s subversion.
By Jubin Katiraie
The Iranian authorities have banned a New York Times correspondent that is based in Tehran from working for the past few months.
Thomas Erdbrink form the Netherlands has been reporting from Iran for the New York Times for the past seven years but had his press credentials revoked earlier this year. The publication has not been given the reason for its journalist being banned from reporting from the country, but it comes as no surprise.
By Pooya Stone
A 21-year-old political prisoner was stabbed to death in the notorious Greater Tehran Penitentiary by two inmates who were agents of the authorities on Monday, June 10.
Alireza Shir-Mohammad-Ali, from Naziabad, south Tehran, was stabbed at least 40 times by Hamidreza Shojazadeh, in prison and on death row for murder, and Mohammadreza Khalilzadeh, convicted on drug-related charges, despite the fact that violent criminals are supposed to be kept on separate wards to prisoners of conscience.
By Jubin Katiraie
Iranian authorities are refusing to allow a prisoner of conscience to be transferred to the hospital despite her deteriorating health conditions.
Journalist Sanaz Allahyari, a member of the editorial board of a magazine called GAM, was arrested five months ago for reporting on the workers’ protests in Khuzestan province.
By Jubin Katiraie
The United States said Tuesday that Iran is violating the 2015 nuclear deal through its work with advanced centrifuges and insisted that it is still prepared to hold talks with Iranian leaders.
In a statement to the meeting of the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors, the US said that Iran’s accelerated enrichment of uranium would not lead the US to dial back its “maximum pressure” approach towards Iran.
By Pooya Stone
Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is bypassing US sanctions against Iran by laundering many millions of dollars in the drug trade in Europe.
This news comes as the result of a study about how Hezbollah’s political wing serves its military wing and further enshrines that there is no real distinction between the two. It showed that Hezbollah acts as intermediaries in the global drug route from South America to West Africa to Europe, with only 5-10% of total drugs being intercepted.
By Jubin Katiraie
Prayer leaders in several cities expressed their fear of the current turbulent conditions of their clerical dictatorship.
According to Hassan Amoli, Friday prayer leader of Ardebil:
• They imposed unprecedented sanctions, put maximum pressure yet they didn’t succeed.
By Pooya Stone
It has been reported in Iran that the National Iranian Oil Company’s (NIOC) owed almost $50 billion at the end of the Iranian year (21st March 2019).
Over the years, Iran has brought in nearly $2 trillion in oil revenues. But years and years of mismanagement, neglect and corruption have destroyed the country’s oil infrastructure.
By Jubin Katiraie
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has placed Iran’s petrochemicals industry on its anti-terrorism sanctions list, which deals a heavy blow to the Iranian economy and further diminishes Iran’s revenues.
The US has previously imposed sanctions on a number of Iranian petrochemical companies, but this is the first time that the industry as a whole, which is Iran’s largest source of non-petroleum revenues, has been targeted.
