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TOP STORIES
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in
public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in
force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media
reported Friday...
Iranians are deeply dissatisfied with their government's
management of the economy and want it to do more to fight corruption,
according to the first major gauge of public opinion since widespread
protests rocked the country last month.
Russian technical specialists are set to arrive this
week at Iran's Fordow nuclear facility, RIA Novosti news agency
reported on Thursday.
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
[E]vidence of non-compliance with the deal has continued
to accrue. Meanwhile, the wealth generated by the nuclear accords,
never percolated down to the people of Iran. Once promoted as a means
to an end, the deal has since its signing become, particularly to its
European champions, a sacred end in itself. The US, on the other
hand, is adopting an approach that takes into account Iran's
actions... All of this signals the emergence of a new approach that
places the actual security of the region above the sanctity of the
deal. If the accord is to survive, it must be revised and reformed.
IRAN PROTESTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
An attorney for an ailing elderly American imprisoned in
Iran since early 2016 is pleading with the Iranian government to
permanently release him after granting him a temporary medical
parole, arguing that returning the man to prison would amount to a
"death sentence."
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has asked
its members around the world to protest against the
"harassment" of labor activists and "systematic
violation" of workers' rights in Iran.
IHR has identified the prisoner who was executed on
Tuesday at Noshahr Prison as Mahbubeh Mofidi. The juvenile-offender
was 17 when she committed the crime. Iran Human Rights (IHR)
had reported the execution of a woman on Tuesday, January 30. Further
research revealed that the executed woman was named Mahbubeh Mofidi
who was 17 at the time of the crime.
Back in 1979, all women in Iran were required by law to
cover their hair, arms, and legs in public... I talked to nine
Iranian women - some still in Iran - about their thoughts on the
White Wednesday campaign and compulsory hijab to get their unfiltered
thoughts about how they're being portrayed in media.
HEZBOLLAH & LEBANON
Israel's defense minister says that should war erupt
again with Lebanon that country will "pay the full price"
for Iran's entrenchment.
OTHER TERRORISM & EXTREMISM
Speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for
National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, State Department
Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales announced on January 31
that Washington has placed new terrorist designations on Palestinian
and Egyptian entities... The designations touch on two issues of
particular interest to the Trump administration: Iranian sponsorship
of terrorism and Muslim Brotherhood-inspired violence.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
A top court in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain
sentenced two people to death on Wednesday and issued lengthy prison
sentences against nearly all 60 defendants on terrorism charges in a
case that highlights the rivalry between Sunni Gulf states and
Shiite-ruled Iran.
SYRIA & IRAN
France's foreign ministry on Thursday condemned a series
of bombing raids in rebel-held areas of Syria and called on Russia
and Iran, as allies of the government, to urgently end the attacks
and ensure humanitarian aid entered the regions.
A United Nations humanitarian task force has been unable
to make deliveries to desperate Syrians for the past two months as
President Bashar al-Assad's government has withheld approval for aid
convoys, the U.N. humanitarian adviser said on Thursday. Before they
can move into besieged areas or across front lines, the convoys
require letters from the government and security guarantees from
armed groups.
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