RFL/RE – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he will meet with his new Iranian counterpart on September 21 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, but Borrell said no ministerial meeting of the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal is on the agenda. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said earlier that the …

Iranwire – President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi has not attended the 76th United Nations General Assembly in person, instead giving his first address to the UN in a pre-recorded video. Raisi’s speech, played on Tuesday at the opening of the week-long summit in New York, was marked largely by antipathy toward the US and Israel. It was heavily edited, with several discernible cuts in …

Iranwire – Now everyone knows his name. An Iranian rapper and songwriter whose regime-critical lyrics catapulted him to fame on social media over the past year is now hitting international headlines, with his fans increasing day by day. Few young Iranians by now have not heard at least one of his fiery tracks – albeit for the worst of reasons. …

Iran-HRM – An Iranian reporter who first reported the murder of a child bride by her cleric husband was detained for 11 days. Sina Ghalandari was arrested and detained by the order of district prosecutor and after the victim’s family filed a complaint against him. The state-run Hamdeli daily reported on Monday that Sina Qalandari, a local journalist in Lorestan …

CHRI – The torture and inhuman mistreatment of detainees and prisoners in Iran are among the most serious violations of human rights in the country’s prisons. In many cases, prisoners or detainees have died from injuries inflicted upon them in custody and yet the government has never acknowledged responsibility on a systemic level, allowing the perpetrators to go unpunished. The …

Iran Human Rights – Abed Khodaverdi and Arshad Jodat who were sentenced to death on drug-related charges, have been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. At least 74 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed on drug-related charges in Zanjan Central …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Informed sources have told Iran Human Rights that Shahin Naseri who was a witness to Navid Afkari’s torture, has died under suspicious circumstances in solitary confinement in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. His brother has confirmed his death but has not been contacted by officials. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Shahin Naseri who …

freebeacon – Trump administration sanctions on Iran decimated the hardline regime’s trade with the world’s largest economies, knocking it from $46 billion in 2019 to $28 billion in 2020, according to a non-public report sent by the Biden administration to Congress earlier this month. The roughly $18 billion decrease in trade was a significant blow to Iran’s attempts to gain …

iranintl_en – iranintl ‘s correspondents in New York have filmed trucks today protesting #Iran‘s president Ebrahim Raisi and members of his administration as he prepares to address #UNGA today. #BREAKING: @IranIntl's correspondents in New York have filmed trucks today protesting #Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi and members of his administration as he prepares to address #UNGA today. #UNGA76 pic.twitter.com/AVdcClRNeb— Iran International …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s government said on Tuesday that negotiations with international powers over its nuclear program would resume in Vienna in a few weeks. “As previously emphasized, the Vienna talks will resume soon and over the next few weeks,” Iran’s state-run IRNA News quoted Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh as saying. Khatibzadeh, who is attending the UN General Assembly summit …