RFL/RE – Iran says it has charged 10 officials over the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) jet that was shot down last year, killing all 176 people on board. Gholam Abbas Torki, the former military prosecutor for Tehran Province, said on April 6 that the 10 have been “brought to responsibility” and will face trial to determine “the …

VOA – The United States and Iran are due to begin indirect talks Tuesday in Vienna aimed at reviving the 2015 agreement that restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price told a press briefing Monday that U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley will lead the U.S. delegation to the Vienna talks in which Britain, China, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Three prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related charges were executed at Urmia Central Prison today. According to Iran Human Rights, three men were executed at Urmia Central Prison in the early hours of this morning. The three prisoners who were sentenced to death on drug-related charges had been transferred in preparation for their executions as …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Arabs are warning the world that Turkey and Iran are funding and arming terrorists, that they a major threat to security and stability in the Middle East, and that they keep meddling in the internal affairs of Arab countries. The Arabs are also telling the world that the only way to deal with Turkey and Iran is …

Al-Monitor – Iran is talking tough ahead of planned indirect talks with the United States in Vienna on Tuesday over a prospective return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday publicly rejected any piecemeal approach to US sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran’s step-by-step return to compliance with the 2015 so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or …

Al-Arabia – Iranian intelligence agents have arrested several foreign-linked spies, including an “Israeli spy,” northwest of the country, an official from the intelligence ministry said on Monday. “An Israeli spy and several other spies with ties to the security services of various countries have been arrested” in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, the director general of intelligence in the province told …

RFL/RE – Iran says it will not engage in negotiations with the United States at the planned talks in Vienna next week on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers. “We will not talk directly or indirectly with the United States in Vienna,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on April 4, denying reports that indirect negotiations …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Farhad Salmanpour Zahir has been denied medical treatment despite suffering from medical conditions. Farhad Salmanpour who suffered severe injuries to his spine as a result of torture and beatings in prison, as well as harassment of ordinary inmates, barely can walk and urgently needs medical treatment. He also suffers from a lung infection and is suspected …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran is a singular political system in many respects. Over the past 42 years, a considerable number of its officials have faced criminal charges in other countries. What other country’s accredited diplomats have been convicted in a foreign court of law for planning a bomb attack? In what other country are citizens fighting to …

Iranwire – On April 1, on the same day that supporters of the Islamic Republic celebrated the 42nd anniversary of the republic’s official establishment, a group of activists championing civil rights, women’s rights, human rights and political freedoms, from different backgrounds and different belief systems, joined together to keep the voices of the victims of the regime’s injustice alive, and to …