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Monthly Archives: August 2018

Prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi Warns in Open Letter: Iranian Authorities Kill Opponents Abroad

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Arash Sadeghi, a civil rights activist imprisoned in Karaj’s notorious Rajai Shahr Prison, has written an open letter following the assassination of Eqbal Moradi, a political activist in Iraqi Kurdistan and the father of political prisoner Zanyar Moradi. Mr Sadeghi points out the history of the Islamic Republic’s assassination campaigns inside and outside the …

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EU Unable to Neutralize US Sanctions against Iran

gatestoneinstitute – The European Union has announced a new regulation aimed at shielding European companies from the impact of US sanctions on Iran. The measure, which has been greeted with skepticism by the European business media, is unlikely to succeed: it expects European companies to risk their business interests in the US market for interests in the much smaller Iranian …

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Freeing Green Movement leaders is losing value as trump card for Tehran

Al-Monitor – In February 2011, Iranian opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi — leaders of the Green Movement protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election — were placed under house arrest. Now, for the first time, there is serious talk about their potential release. There are also reports that former Reformist President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005) will soon meet with Supreme Leader …

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Talk of referendum on Trump meeting goes viral in Iran

Al-Montior – “Iran is not your private property. Put talks with the US to a referendum!” That’s what a hand-held sign says in a photograph that went viral after President Hassan Rouhani touched on Article 59 of the constitution, which allows referendums on deeply divisive issues, in an Aug. 6 televised interview.

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