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Iran slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to
target the head of its judiciary [Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani]
with sanctions, saying the move warrants a "severe"
response.
The sales chief of European planemaker Airbus predicted
Iran would take delivery of dozens of European jets it has ordered
under a nuclear sanctions deal with major powers, but warned the
transactions could take longer to complete than planned... Bankers
say further business with Iran has been held up by the reluctance of
Western financial institutions to deal with Tehran because of
concerns that the nuclear deal could unravel or that they could fall
foul of ongoing U.S. financial controls.
President Trump's latest ultimatum on the Iran nuclear
deal has increased the pressure on congressional negotiators who are
trying to write a bill to improve the controversial pact, lawmakers
acknowledged after his Friday announcement.
UANI IN THE NEWS
President Trump seemingly served notice Friday that the
days are dwindling for Barack Obama's Iran agreement. Although deal
proponents also gained time to pursue "fixes," this is a
forlorn option. No fix will remedy the diplomatic Waterloo Mr. Obama
negotiated.
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
Russia spoke out strongly Monday against the U.S. push
for modifying a nuclear agreement with Iran, while Germany said it
would seek more detail on what the U.S. wants and analyze the
situation with its European partners.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said world
leaders are running out of time to fix the nuclear deal with Iran,
backing U.S. President Donald Trump on his ultimatum to European
leaders.
IRAN PROTESTS
Iran has freed 440 people arrested in Tehran during
anti-government protests, a judiciary official said, amid continuing
uncertainty over how many were detained around the country. Judicial
officials have announced more than 1,000 arrests around the country,
but lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi said last week that at least 3,700
people had been detained. Several detainees have died in custody, and
human rights activists have called for an independent investigation
of their cases.
The United States has every reason to do what it can to
help Iran's movement for economic justice and civil liberties. Just
as the 1979 revolution uncorked the menace of fundamentalism that has
since ravaged the region, authentic democratic change in Iran could
pave the way for a brighter future in the Middle East.
What happened was unprecedented in Iran's contemporary
history. It was a truly national revolt against the established
order. It didn't offer a clear alternative but helped clear the air
by puncturing the Khomeinist regime's claim of invincibility. Even a
year ago few would admit that the Khomeinist system was
overthrowable. Now many, including some of the regime's lobbyists
abroad, publicly do so.
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS
As former President Barack Obama's top commander in the
Middle East, then-Gen. Jim Mattis pushed for military strikes to
punish Iran for arming anti-American militias in Iraq. But as
President Donald Trump's Defense secretary, Mattis has softened his
stance and emerged as one of the administration's chief voices of
moderation toward Tehran.
HUMAN RIGHTS
After years of growing restrictions online, Iranians know
a thing or two about getting around their government's censorship
system, colloquially known as the "Filternet," and they
often turn to circumvention services like Virtual Private Networks,
or Tor. Censorship circumvention isn't done just with ad hoc apps
though. And sophisticated government censors have become quite good
at blocking specific apps. So, sometimes, an app that would be
blocked by censors can mask itself within the traffic of a
popular-and approved-service. That's a technique known as "domain
fronting," which relies on piggybacking off of popular services
like GitHub or Amazon's AWS to make it harder for countries like Iran
or China to block specific apps... Iranian users could piggyback off
of Google as well, but the Google App Engine (GAE), the service that
would be used for domain fronting in this case, blocks traffic that
comes from Iran. In this case, Google, not Iran is doing the
blocking. The effect is that Iranians are unable to use some services
that would be particularly useful during protests.
RUSSIA & IRAN
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian
counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the conflict in Syria and
the Iran nuclear deal in a phone conversation, the Russian Foreign
Ministry said on Tuesday.
SYRIA & IRAN
Iran said on Tuesday a new U.S.-backed, 30,000-strong
force inside Syria would "fan the flames of war," echoing
the vehement response of Syria, Turkey and Russia to the plan.
GULF STATES, YEMEN, LEBANON, & IRAN
Yemeni government has accused Iranian institutions of
constantly trying to counterfeit the Yemeni currency causing its
devaluation.
IRANIAN DOMESTIC ISSUES
The fire from a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East
China Sea has burned out, a Chinese transport ministry spokesman said
Monday, although concerns remain about possible major pollution to
the sea bed and surrounding waters... Just three bodies from the
tanker Sanchi's crew of 32, composed of 30 Iranians and two
Bangladeshis, have been recovered.
Iran's air pollution crisis, which claimed more than
4,800 lives in 2016, has become yet another area for scoring
political points for both the Reformists and the Principlists, much
like almost everything else in Iran.
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