Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday boasted that the international sanctions regime against Iran was unraveling, echoing a theme that he has been consistently emphasizing since the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which provided Tehran with badly-needed financial relief – was signed in November: “With your support, this government has taken the first steps...

Iran’s propaganda machine suggested April 13 that the leading figure in the Syrian opposition demanded “a coalition with Israel,” even being prepared to accept Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Tehran frequently uses its manifold media outlets to diss its opponents by hinting at or saying outright they enjoy relations...

Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Imami Kashani declared in a nationally televised sermon on Friday that Tehran would continue pushing forward with its nuclear program despite the intentions of the country’s “enemies,” prompting the Wall Street Journal – which read the boast against the backdrop of similar remarks recently aired by...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday outlined the details of a new International Monetary Fund report concluding – pre the outlet – that “Iran’s economy is stabilizing” and will grow in 2014 “even if sanctions relief under [the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA)] deal proves short-lived.” Masood Ahmed, director of the IMF’s...

English-language Palestinian media reported on Thursday that the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had voted to dispatch an expert mission to Jerusalem: Palestine and Jordan, thanks to support from Arab and Islamic groups, successfully passed Thursday a UNESCO Executive Board resolution to send an expert...

Reuters on Thursday conveyed details of a conversation between Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, in which Lew expressed concern over a Russian-Iranian oil-for-goods deal: “Secretary Lew reiterated our serious concerns regarding reports of a possible deal between Russia and Iran involving oil-for-goods,” a Treasury representative said in a...