New Iranian legislation requiring officials to boost uranium enrichment within the country's controversial nuclear program is seen as an attempt to hurt moderates and sabotage President Hassan Rohani’s efforts to deal with the incoming U.S. administration.
In Iran, hard-liners are calling for tough action to deter international attacks like the one that killed one of the fathers of its nuclear program. Moderates are warning against closing off avenues to diplomacy with the incoming U.S. administration.
New legislation proposed in Iran would impose 25-year jail terms on illegal migrants while also giving officials the authority to fire on vehicles suspected of carrying asylum seekers.
In a criticism of President Hassan Rouhani's government, a member of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office, Rasool Sanaei Rad, said that those seeking "a resumption of negotiations with the United States" had "partisan and electoral goals.
The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist has prompted criticism of the security apparatus, which is being blamed for failing to prevent the killing. The attack has resulted in calls for authorities to find the foreign agents that seem to have infiltrated the security system.
"We were told at the Ministry of Intelligence that 'it was a simple mistake,'" prominent Iranian writer Farkhondeh Hajizadeh says in an interview with Radio Farda. "By a simple mistake, they killed, dismembered, and mutilated two people,"
The Iraqi military is training a former member of an Iran-backed militia, who is under U.S. sanctions for killing protesters, to become a high-ranking officer in the army, according to six government, security and militia officials.
"Deficient filing" is a familiar term to Baha'i youth in Iran who want to enter university and carry on their education like any other citizen enjoying one of their most fundamental rights.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a statement on Joe Biden's victory in the recent U.S. presidential election, claiming, "The aliens could not be relied on and it is not possible to pin hopes on them."
A member of the Health Commission of Iran's Majlis parliament, Homayoun Sameh Bakhtabadi, says that even disregarding the U.S. sanctions, it will take at least two years for the coronavirus vaccine to reach Iran.
The Speaker of the Iranian Majlis parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, is compelling President Hassan Rouhani to follow a new law that requires the government to provide subsidies for essential goods.
Based on the motion, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is obliged to redesign and optimize a 40-megawatt heavy water reactor in Arak within four months of the motion's passage.
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