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IranWatch Daily: August 4, 2025IranWatch
Aug 4, 2025

IranWatch Daily: August 4, 2025

Brief Notes IAEA Official to Visit Tehran Soon: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei announced today that a senior IAEA official will visit Tehran within the next 10 days. However, the visit will not involve inspections, as Islamic Republic law now bars IAEA access to nuclear sites....

IranWatch Daily: August 1, 2025IranWatch
Aug 1, 2025

IranWatch Daily: August 1, 2025

Brief Notes U.S. Sanctions Tehran’s Drone Tech Procurement Network: The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned five entities and one individual across Iran, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for procuring technology for the Islamic Republic’s military drone maker HESA. Tehran has not yet responded. U.S. State...

Iranian Opposition Unites Around Crown Prince Reza PahlaviPolicy Briefs
Aug 1, 2025

Iranian Opposition Unites Around Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

On Saturday, July 26, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi hosted the Convention of National Cooperation to Save Iran. The convention, held in Munich, included over 500 invited attendees representing “the broade...

IranWatch Daily: July 31, 2025IranWatch
Jul 31, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 31, 2025

Brief Notes Tehran Nearing Water ‘Day Zero’: Tehran is nearing “day zero,” when much of the city could lose access to water amid severe drought, record heat, and decades of mismanagement. Reservoirs are at just 21% capacity, and authorities have cut water pressure for 80% of households. Experts...

IranWatch Daily: July 30, 2025IranWatch
Jul 30, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 30, 2025

Brief Notes President Promises ‘Crushing Response’ to Any Potential Strike: President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that any renewed Israeli strike in Iran would be met with a “decisive and crushing response.” In a call with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, Pezeshkian said, “Our preference...

IranWatch Daily: July 29, 2025IranWatch
Jul 29, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 29, 2025

Brief Notes State Department Says Iranians Deserve Better: The official Persian-language X account of the U.S. State Department today posted: “Days without water in the scorching heat of July. There is no access to water for drinking, bathing, washing, or cooling homes. The people of Iran continue...

IranWatch Daily: July 28, 2025IranWatch
Jul 28, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 28, 2025

Brief Notes IAEA Officials Set to Visit Iran in Two Weeks: Islamic Republic Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei today announced that IAEA officials are scheduled to visit Iran in two weeks. Baghaei also stressed that “if Iran remains a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it must...

IranWatch Daily: July 25, 2025IranWatch
Jul 25, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 25, 2025

Brief Notes Law Enforcement Kills 11 ‘Armed Criminals,’ Seizes Four Tons of Narcotics: The Islamic Republic Law Enforcement Command has seized more than four tons of various narcotics, including heroin, methamphetamine, and opium, and killed 11 “heavily armed criminals” in central Iran. The deputy...

IranWatch Daily: July 24, 2025IranWatch
Jul 24, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 24, 2025

Brief Notes Islamic Republic Commanders Attend Mourning Ceremonies: Top regime commanders today attended mourning ceremonies marking 40 days since the deaths of senior officials killed during the 12-Day War. The traditional mourning period in Iranian culture lasts 40 days. Usually, immediate family...

IranWatch Daily: July 23, 2025IranWatch
Jul 23, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 23, 2025

NUFDI’s Latest Publications Attached Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya - Iran is ready for true democracy. Iran’s hostage-taking undermines the global order - To Tehran, foreign visitors are bargaining chips Brief Notes Islamic Republic Claims U.S. Warship Forced to Alter Course:...

Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or LibyaOp-Eds
Jul 22, 2025

Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya

Read the full article in The American Spectator When a government feels the need to repeatedly shut off the internet to silence its own people, it exposes its most crippling insecurity: citizens wh...

IranWatch Daily: July 22, 2025IranWatch
Jul 22, 2025

IranWatch Daily: July 22, 2025

Brief Notes Unclaimed Drone Strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan Oil Fields: Nearly 20 drone strikes have targeted oil fields in Iraqi Kurdistan since July 14. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, although London-based Al-Arab newspaper reported that “the attacks are widely believed to have...