We appreciate what Reuters does in this instance, to in the headline point out that Iran does anything but play an “advisory” role in Syria and regarding Assad. See “Iran vows to crush any Israeli attempt to hit its ‘advisory’ role in Syria,” Reuters, Yahoo, November 22, 2020.
Normal countries build infrastructure and roads. “The mentioned mines are situated in South Khorasan, Yazd, Semnan, West Azarbaijan, Zanjan, and Qazvin provinces, according to Divdideh. He added that with the completion of this project, the essential road and rail network will be offered for the growth of 70 mines in the country. The government projects to pay out seven trillion rials (about USD167 million) for offering mining infrastructure by the end of the next Iranian calendar year (March 2022), as told by IRNA. See “Iran to provide essential infrastructure for 30 mines,” MENAFN, November 22, 2020.
This blog focuses on the Regime. Here is different sort of story, reminding us of the good nature of the people of Iran. “Iranian Teacher Spends Inheritance on Buying Tablets for Deprived Students,” IFP, November 22, 2020.
“On the morning of Sunday, November 22, in simultaneous operations in various cities across Iran, security agents ransacked the homes of tens of Baha’is. Their personal effects, mobile phones, computers, laptops and religious books and pictures were all confiscated, and in a number of cases, the agents also reportedly took away any cash they found, along with national ID cards. The reason for this wave of raids is not yet known. According to two Baha’is whose homes were searched, the warrant only specified that it was for “searching the home and workplace and seizure of equipment.” As of now, there have been no reports of any arrests. At the time of writing raids on the homes of Baha’is in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan and its suburbs, Mashhad and Kerman had been confirmed. See “Breaking: An All-Out Assault on Baha’is Across Iran,” Iran Press Watch, November 22, 2020.
$100,000 is very little. The article expounds to say “1,300 passenger cars … were exported to nine countries in this period including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Spain, China, Iraq and Turkey.” See “Iran exports $100,000 worth of sedans to Spain: IRICA,” Mehr, November 22, 2020.
“Indonesia to study Iran’s proposal to build oil refinery,” Mehr News Agency, November 22, 2020.
This article poses one of the challenges the new U.S. administration will face—a huge unreasonable claim. “U.S., Europe should pay Iran $200 billion in compensation over JCPOA failure: senior MP,” Tehran Times, November 22, 2020.