RFL/RE – Embattled Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has apologized for comments he made in a recording that was leaked last week in which he criticized the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the powerful late General Qasem Soleimani. Zarif wrote on Instagram on May 2 that he hoped Soleimani’s family and the Iranian people would forgive him for the controversial …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s treatment of detained dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to “torture”, Britain said on Sunday, after she was jailed and banned from leaving the Islamic republic. “I think it amounts to torture the way she’s being treated, and there is a very clear, unequivocal obligation on the Iranians to release her,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC television.

RFL/RE – Parties to the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran wrapped up a third round of talks on May 1 focused on bringing the United States and Iran back into full compliance with the deal, with negotiators in Vienna giving contrasting accounts of the tasks ahead.Senior officials from China, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and Iran said they would adjourn …

Iran-HRM – Dozens of Iranian workers and employees were arrested today in rallies marking International Labor Day in Tehran. Labor rights activists Asal Mohammadi, Hirad Pirbodaghi, Saeed Malayeri, are among those arrested outside the regime’s Labor Ministry. Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company has also confirmed the arrest of “dozens” of its members including Reza Shahabi, Hassan …

Iran-HRM – A man was arrested for publishing a videos of Wednesday protests in a village in Iran’s Lorestan province over the cutting down of local’s walnut trees by government agents, the state run IRNA news agency reported on April 30. According to the report the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Selseleh city in Lorestan province announced the arrest of …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – After spending five and a half years in prison, human rights defender Arash Sadeghi has been released from Rajai Shahr Prison following the implementation of the Sentence Reduction Directive. According to Iran Human Rights, human rights defender Arash Sadeghi has been released after spending five and half years in prison, where he suffered with sick health …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Biden administration seems more determined than ever, however, to “reward” Iran’s dangerous and predatory regime by returning to a deal that has sunset clauses, as well as an expiration date after which the mullahs can enrich uranium, spin centrifuges at any level they desire, and make as many nuclear weapons as they like. A return to the …

Iranwire – Mostafa Tajzadeh’s candidacy for President of Iran has caused a stir in Iranian political circles. The reformist activist announced he would run in the June elections on Sunday, April 25, and two days later, in a five-hour Clubhouse chatroom session, he took questions about why he was running and responded to criticisms. “I am sticking to the ballot …

Iranwire – Iran’s official state news agency has revealed that the 2021-2022 budget scandal is more extensive than previously thought, prompting threats that legal action might be taken against the agency for its publication of “fake news”. Iranians were still absorbing the shock of the budget scandal when further news emerged of the extent of the last-minute changes. Islamic Republic News …

VOA – Saturday, parties to the Iran nuclear agreement are to resume the third round of negotiations in Vienna aimed at bringing the United States back into the accord.The deal, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, has been on life support since then U.S. president Donald Trump bolted in 2018.The remaining partners to the 2015 accord …