January 25, 2020.  Another example of Iran being willing to negotiate (per the FM, not the Supreme Leader), but only if the U.S. will change first.  Which means stopping sanctions.  “Iran's Zarif Says Tehran Still Willing to Negotiate With the U.S.,” AP, Haaretz, January 25, 2020.  The article says, “Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country's foreign minister said in an interview released Saturday. Mohammed Javad Zarif told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that he would “never rule out the possibility that people will change their approach and recognize the realities,” in an interview conducted Friday in Tehran. There has been growing tension between Washington and Tehran since in 2018, when President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal with Iran. The U.S. has since re-imposed tough sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy. But Zarif suggested Iran was still willing to talk, though reiterated his country's previous demand that first the U.S. would have to lift sanctions. “For us, it doesn’t matter who is sitting in the White House, what matters is how they behave,” he said, according to Der Spiegel. “The Trump administration can correct its past, lift the sanctions and come back to the negotiating table. We’re still at the negotiating table. They’re the ones who left.”

January 25, 2020.  “Iran has capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage: nuclear agency," Reuters, January 25, 2020.  Here is the story—“Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage if Iranian authorities decide to do so, the deputy head of the country’s nuclear agency said in a report posted on its website on Saturday. “At the moment, if (Iranian authorities) make the decision, the Atomic Energy Organization, as the executor, will be able to enrich uranium at any percentage,” Ali Asghar Zarean said. Iran said earlier this month it would scrap limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but pledged to continue cooperating with the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Since Iran took the latest step in reducing commitments to the accord, the country’s stock of uranium produced has passed 1,200 kilograms and it will quickly be added to the stock of enriched uranium, Zarean said.”

January 25, 2020.  Let’s think about this.  Iran complains that the U.S. turns away at Logan Airport a college student and puts them pack on a plane toward Tehran.  But these complaints of “inhuman” treatment come from a regime that shoots its own citizens point blank during protests, downs an airliner due killing almost 200 to incompetence, and jails its own citizens of minority religions and those of foreign nationality in Evin Prison.  Who is acting “inhuman” here?  On top of that, Abadi’s immediate family has close ties to the IRGC.  See “Iran condemns 'inhuman' US treatment of its nationals,” Al Jazeera, January 25, 2020.

“Iran arrests Kurdish journalist for not using ‘martyr’ to describe Soleimani: Report,” Kurdistan24, January 25, 2020.

“Families Of Downed Plane Victims In Canada Suing Iran's Leader And Military,” Radio Farda, January 25, 2020.

“How Demographics Could Spark Change in Iran,” Ilan Berman, The National Interest, January 25, 2020.

“Top US official on Iran says China’s oil purchases are ‘funding Iran’s terrorism’,” Owen Churchill, South China Morning Post, January 25, 2020.

“Report: Online site that pays Americans to write articles originates in Iran,” JNS, January 25, 2020.

January 25, 2020.  “Iran has stockpiled 1,200 kilograms, or about 2,600 pounds, which is well beyond what the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers allowed.”  See “Iran Says Its Enriched Uranium Stockpile Is Far Beyond Allowed Amount,” AP, New York Times, January 25, 2020.