VOA – Efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are at a “critical phase” and Tehran’s reasons for avoiding talks are wearing thin, a U.S. official said Monday while raising the possibility of further diplomacy even if the deal cannot be resuscitated. U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley told reporters Washington was increasingly worried Tehran would keep delaying …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared who has spent more than 12 years in prison without one day of furlough, is under increasing pressure since her prison exile to Semnan Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared has been under increasing pressure since being prison exiled to Semnan Prison. She was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Following his family’s complaint about the death in custody of juvenile offender, Danial Zeinolabedini on 2 April 2020 in Miandoab Prison, a trial has been scheduled to investigate his death on 19 December 2021. However, security and judicial officers tried to force his father to retract his complaint through coercion and force. While suicide was ruled …

Al-Monitor – Following weeks of speculations, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Peyman Jebelli late last month as the new CEO of the country’s largest media organization, known as the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Jebelli, a 55-year-old communications graduate, hails from the Islamic Stability Front, the most unyielding faction of Iran’s influential hard-line camp. Prior to the new promotion, Jebelli …

Al-Monitor – US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said Monday there’s a “shared impatience” among Gulf and European allies over Iran’s refusal to set a date for nuclear talks in Vienna.  Malley spoke with reporters following recent trips to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and France, where he said interlocutors are growing concerned “over the “pace and direction of …

Al-Monitor — Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, responded to reports that Israel has proposed $1.5 billion to carry out strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. In a post on Twitter, Shamkhani wrote, “Instead of allocating 1.5 billion dollars budget for atrocities against Iran, the Zionist regime should focus on providing tens of thousands of billion dollars to repair the damage that …

Al-Arabia – The expansion of influence and establishment of dominance through the so-called ‘export of revolution’ is a globally known public Iranian strategy that needs no proof, and it has been the applied strategy since the revolution of Khomeini in 1979 till the present, with no signs that Iran of the future is willing to amend it in any manner, …

VOA – The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian held in Iran since 2016, began a hunger strike Sunday to denounce the British government for “also letting us down” and failing to secure her release. Richard Ratcliffe plans to spend the night in a tent outside the Foreign Office, a week after his wife lost her appeal on a …

Iranwire – Arsalan Yazdani, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was recently released from prison after his sudden arrest by security agents on September 1 this year. The graphic designer has taken to Instagram to explain what happened – and the basic error by the arresting officers that justified his being taken away. Yazdani explained that during the search of his home, officers …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Cousins Ali Mohammad Mohammadi and Eslam Mohammadi who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “murder during a tribal clash” have been executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison. Ali Mohammad’s mother died of a heart attack following her son’s execution. Their four co-defendants remain at risk of execution. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were …