Category: 1. Iran

Pars Today — The U.S. Treasury Department has added 14 individuals, 24 companies, 10 ships, and seven aircraft to its sanctions list due to their links with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Continuing its pressure on Iran’s peaceful…

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter.

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at speculation about the Saudis facilitating talks…

Pars Today — Iranian users on the social media platform X emphasized that the recent IAEA Board of Governors resolution against Iran complicates the path of diplomacy.

The resolution, proposed by three European countries (France,…

Pars Today — The U.S. magazine Foreign Policy has assessed the European Union’s promise to Ukraine of eventual EU membership as hollow.

According to Pars Today, in an analysis titled “Europe Is Selling Ukraine a Pipe Dream,”…

Why it matters:

Such an admission not only confirms Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons, which it has never publicly acknowledged, but also highlights the risks of nuclear escalation in Middle East conflicts. Israel is…

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Israel would be unable to withstand a unilateral confrontation with Iran for more than a week, noting that the outcome of the 12-day conflict in June revealed the regime’s vulnerabilities…

In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry said the move by the three European countries and the United States to draft and impose the resolution on the Board of Governors is yet another clear sign of their irresponsible conduct and ongoing…

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced that Tehran has officially ended the Cairo Memorandum of Understanding, the document that had governed its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.