gatestoneinstitute.org – Apparently desperate to revive the nuclear pact, the Biden administration at once began appeasing the ruling clerics of Iran. From the perspective of Iran’s mullahs, Biden’s desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time, get more concessions, advance its nuclear program and become a nuclear …

RFL/RE – The United States has warned that time is running out for a “strict return” to the frayed nuclear deal at the center of negotiations between Iran and world powers. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s injunction came after Iran’s new hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, pushed back on September 8 against a confidential report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog accusing …

Iranwire -Members of the media in Afghanistan have been living in fear ever since the Taliban came to power. In recent days more than a dozen reporters and crew members covering protests in Kabul and other Afghan cities were detained and in some cases viciously beaten by the Taliban. The Taliban appears unable to live up to its initial promise to allow the press and broadcasters …

Iranwire- Teachers have been coming out on the streets of Tehran and 12 other cities and towns across Iran to express frustration and anger at the ongoing threats to their livelihoods, the result of flawed, inconsistent education policies. Most recently, they say, teacher and education graduates have been forced to sit a new exam, resulting in thousands of people being put out of work.  It’s a …

articleeighteen – Three Christian converts were arrested last night in the northern city of Rasht, in the latest blow to the beleaguered Christian community there. Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh were arrested at around 10pm – two at a house-church meeting, and another at his home – and are now being held in an unknown location. The small …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces shot a man at point black on September 4 in Mehrshahr district in Karaj, west of Tehran. The young man has been identified as Morteza Jafari. In a video circulated on social media, a police officer shot an incapacitated man, who was forced on the ground, at point-blank range. The young man was shot …

Iran-HRM – political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health after 39 days of hunger strike in protest of the prosecutor’s rejection of his request for leave. A member of the political prisoner’s family told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health. He described that the court and the Yazd prison officials have accepted Mohammadzadeh’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner only named as Nouramad, who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on September 5. He has only been named as 45-year-old Nourahmad, known as Keramat and had been sentenced to qisas for murder. Rokna reports that Nourahmad was …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Ghaani spoke to parliament during a closed session Tuesday about the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. According to Iranian parliamentarian Alireza Soleimani, Ghaani said Iran had a number of priorities in Afghanistan. The first was that Iran’s security in Afghanistan not be “compromised.” Ghaani said the US goal is to have Iran’s government involved in conflicts …

Al-Monitor – Malley on road for nuclear talks. US Iran Envoy Robert Malley visits Moscow and Paris this week for talks on “Iran’s nuclear program and the need to quickly reach and implement an understanding on a mutual return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” according to the Department of State. Background. The Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear …