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IranWatch Daily: November 21, 2025IranWatch
Nov 21, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 21, 2025

Brief Notes Friday Prayer Leader Calls Saudi Arabia ‘America’s Milk Cow’: Leading Tehran’s Friday Prayers today, Mohammad Javad Haj Aliakbari attacked the UN and several Arab states for backing President Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan, calling it a “worthless plan presented by the gambler...

IranWatch Daily: November 20, 2025IranWatch
Nov 20, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 20, 2025

Brief Notes State Media Cast Epstein Vote as ‘Political Defeat’ for Trump: State media claimed the 427-1 U.S. House of Representatives vote directing the Department of Justice to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein was a “heavy political defeat” for President Trump, dubiously suggesting it...

IranWatch Daily: November 19, 2025IranWatch
Nov 19, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 19, 2025

Brief Notes FM Says Regime Will ‘Never Yield to Zero Enrichment’: Islamic Republic Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview today that Tehran would “never yield to zero enrichment,” calling any agreement that eliminates enrichment “treasonous” and insisting the nuclear program is a...

IranWatch Daily: November 18, 2025IranWatch
Nov 18, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 18, 2025

Brief Notes Tehran Denies Using MBS as Intermediary in U.S. Talks: Tehran claims that President Masoud Pezeshkian’s recent letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was strictly about thanking Riyadh for its cooperation in organizing safe Hajj pilgrimages for Iranians, dismissing speculation...

Iran’s ‘Private’ Banks Are Just the Ayatollah’s Cash MachinesIranWatch
Nov 18, 2025

Iran’s ‘Private’ Banks Are Just the Ayatollah’s Cash Machines

You might not know this, but the office park down the street or the luxury hotel in your city could be part of the Ayatollah’s financial network. Behind every “private” Iranian bank, there is a web of shell companies, crypto addresses, and real-estate fronts quietly washing the regime’s money into...

IranWatch Daily: November 17, 2025IranWatch
Nov 17, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 17, 2025

Brief Notes FM Says Tehran Supports ‘Unity’ for Lebanon: Islamic Republic Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Ali Hassan Khalil, a senior Lebanese MP of the Shia Amal Movement and a deputy to Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, on the sidelines of the “International Law Under Assault:...

IranWatch Daily: November 14, 2025IranWatch
Nov 14, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 14, 2025

Brief Notes IRGC Seizes Marshall Islands-Flagged Tanker in Strait of Hormuz: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intercepted the Marshall Islands-flagged crude oil tanker Talara today, forcing it towards Iranian territorial waters after it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The tanker,...

IranWatch Daily: November 13, 2025IranWatch
Nov 13, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 13, 2025

Brief Notes Supreme Leader’s Restrictions on U.S. Talks Remain Unchanged: A senior official in the Office of the Supreme Leader, Mehdi Fazaeli, today said that restrictions on talks with the U.S. introduced by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have remained unchanged. He added, “Negotiations with the...

IranWatch Daily: November 12, 2025IranWatch
Nov 12, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 12, 2025

Brief Notes Despite Regime Crackdowns, Public Discontent Reaches Streets: Two individuals dressed as Artesh (the conventional Iranian Army, as opposed to the Islamic Republic’s IRGC) officers raised the pre-1979 lion-and-sun flag of Iran in a Tehran metro station today. Initial reports say...

IranWatch Daily: November 11, 2025IranWatch
Nov 11, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 11, 2025

Brief Notes Energy Industry, Healthcare Personnel Go on Strike: Thousands of workers at the critical South Pars gas field in southern Iran are staging demonstrations and have announced a weekly work stoppage over “longstanding grievances” at the site. Concurrently, videos posted to social media...

IranWatch Daily: November 10, 2025IranWatch
Nov 10, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 10, 2025

Brief Notes French Think Tank Says Regime Has ‘Infiltrated’ France: French think tank France2050, in its inaugural report, said the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Paris acts as “the European anchor of the Revolutionary Guards’ influence operations,” working to recruit journalists, academics, and...

Manouchehr Bakhtiari Writes Open Letter to President TrumpPress Releases
Nov 10, 2025

Manouchehr Bakhtiari Writes Open Letter to President Trump

Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of slain protestor Pouya Bakhtiari, writes to President Donald Trump with a direct appeal to stand with the Iranian people, not with those who advocate minor reforms t...