News of Thursday 7 March 2019

• 36 nations, including Europeans, rap Saudi Arabia for 1st time at UN rights body
• Hawkish Israeli PM threatens to block Iran oil shipments
• Ebrahim Raeisi appointed as new judiciary chief
• 'Nonconstructive statements' have no achievement but deepening distrust
• Iran, Russia ink a three-year contract on countering narcotics
• Most countries in world opposed to US imposition of sanctions against Iran