It’s a balmy Tuesday morning in Rancho Palos Verdes, and people are slowly starting to trickle into a nondescript medical office building. They bring plates, removing the aluminium foil and plastic film to reveal banana bread drizzled with chocolate sauce and a pistachio crumb, plump nazook cookies, a cinnamon cake and bite-sized pieces of cantaloupe. Black tea is poured into glasses. They greet each other with “Salam, chetori,” Farsi for “How are you?” These seniors are here for a meeting of what they fondly call Tuesday Club at the South Bay Persian Heritage Foundation. Maloos Ferasat started the gathering just…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to two U.S. officials. Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf. The two U.S. officials spoke with The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. The White House and National Security…
DUBAI/PARIS, April 30 (Reuters) – Iran will hold talks in Rome on Friday with European parties to their now moribund 2015 nuclear deal, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, as both sides seek to position themselves ahead of a new round of U.S.-Iranian negotiations on Saturday. Reuters reported on Monday that Tehran had proposed meeting Britain, France and Germany, collectively known as the E3, who stuck to the 2015 deal meant to curb Iran’s nuclear activity, which unravelled in 2018 when U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of it during his first term in the White House.
Fires at Iran’s largest commercial port, Bandar Abbas, have been extinguished two days after a massive explosion killed at least 70 people and injured more than 1,000, Iranian state media has reported, as questions linger as to the blast’s cause. Only “120 wounded are still in hospital”, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, who is visiting the affected area, told state TV on Monday. The blast took place on Saturday at Shahid Rajaei Port in Iran’s south near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil output passes. Earlier, before the fires were put out, Iran’s state TV…
MUSCAT, Oman — A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran believed to be linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 14 people and injuring about 750 others. Helicopters dumped water on the raging fire hours after the initial explosion, which happened at the Shahid Rajaei port just as Iran and the United States met Saturday in Oman for the third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. No one in Iran suggested that the explosion was the result of an attack. On Wednesday, however, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi,…
By Sara Akhavan (Source: Eater.com) For many Persian families, a meal is a kind of performance. It’s saffron-stained fingertips clouding a freshly sacrificed manicure. Chimes of chatter between khalehs and other aunties playing an acts-of-service tug-of-war surrounding the bountiful sofreh spread out across the table. An intoxicating cloud of eau de basmati, on the brink of a perfect steam. The crackle and pop of a sun-kissed golden layer of crispy tahdig, in its final moments above a steady flame, ready for its debut with a strong flick of the wrist onto a silver serving tray. The deliciously over-the-top ritual of…
By Grace Goulding (Source: Olympics.com) In the shadow of the Alborz Mountains lies one of Tehran’s busiest malls. And between designer storefronts and fast food kiosks sits IceBox, one of just six indoor ice hockey rinks in the country. There, young women lace up skates behind glass walls, skating into a world most of their peers never knew existed. Watching them with an unshakable focus is their coach, Azam Sanaei. At 35, Sanaei is the head coach of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s women’s national team and the first woman ever inducted into the nation’s ice hockey Hall of Fame. Hanging up her…
IRAN REPORT’S ARTICLE SUMMARY: LA County has reached a $4 Billion settlement with the victims of child sexual abuse. Most of the cases stem from abuse allegations that occurred in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s at probation and foster care facilities, county officials said. A significant number took place at the MacLaren Children’s Center, a county-run children’s shelter that operated for 42 years east of downtown Los Angeles in the city of El Monte. Opened in 1961 as a temporary foster home, MacLaren permanently closed in 2003 amid lawsuits that claimed severe mistreatment of children. A civil grand jury report…
VIENNA, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that if Iran did not strike a deal with the United States over its nuclear programme “there will be bombing”, adding to U.S. ally Israel’s long-standing threat to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Below are some of Iran’s main nuclear facilities. WHERE ARE IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES? Iran’s nuclear programme is spread over many locations. While the threat of Israeli airstrikes has loomed for decades, only some of the sites have been built underground. DOES IRAN HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMME? The United States and the U.N. nuclear watchdog believe…
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. In Trump’s first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that U.S. and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate. “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” Trump said in a telephone interview. “It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” “There’s a chance that if they don’t make a deal, that…