Translated—Iran wants to control Syria, and push Russia out if needed.  “Iran welcomes expansion of ties with Syria: MP,” Tehran Times, July 11, 2021.

“Report: Belgium airport scare believed to be Iranian test of Israeli security protocols,” CJN, July 11, 2021.

Purposed to support peace is the Asian Parliamentary Assembly.  Not strong.  Hardly in the news.  “Iran signs agreement with Asian Parliamentary Assembly,” Tehran Times, July 11, 2021.

“Iran starts drilling oil in joint Forouzan field,” Xinhua, July 11, 2021.

Great read.  “Iran: On the survival of the impossible state,” Hamid Dabashi, op-ed, Middle East Eye, July 11, 2021.  “The regime’s pantomime of democracy primarily aims to determine whether there is any serious opposition to its tyranny, so it can crush it.”

“Amid mysterious explosions, Iranian ex-MP claims Mossad behind all attacks,” Times of Israel, July 11, 2021.

“Will The Next Iran-Iraq War be on Water?,” Albawaba, July 11, 2021.

But the Supreme Leader has taken his shot.  “Only about 2% of Iran’s 84 million people have been fully vaccinated.”  But mismanagement, corruption, and poor choices have resulted in too few vaccines available in Iran—and it doesn’t have to be this way.  See “Iranians, desperate for COVID vaccines, are crossing into Armenia to get them,” Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, Seattle Times, July 11, 2021.

Translated—Iran wants to control Syria, and push Russia out if needed.  “Iran welcomes expansion of ties with Syria: MP,” Tehran Times, July 11, 2021.

“Iran seeks oil strategy shift, sees Iran Deal as less important,” Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2021.