Iranwire – The Iranian Football Federation has cancelled the national team’s planned flight to Beirut as its preferred airline could not get clearance from the Lebanese authorities and no other planes are available. Team Melli is due to play Lebanon in the World Cup Qualifiers on November 11 and according to the rules, must arrive no later than three days …

Iranwire – Residents in the city of Miqdadiyah in Iraq’s Diyala Governorate have confirmed to IranWire that an all-out assault by Iran-affiliated militia groups has forced Sunni civilians to flee the area. Meanwhile, local authorities have refused to intervene. Local public figure Sheikh Ammar al-Azzawi told IranWire that the militants’ attacks came in retaliation to an armed incursion in the …

VOA— The Pentagon is slamming claims by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that IRGC forces thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Republic’s oil in the Sea of Oman. “I’ve seen the Iranian claims. They are absolutely, totally false and untrue,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Wednesday. Kirby said it was Iran’s …

VOA – U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed Wednesday that a seventh round of Iran nuclear talks will start November 29 in Vienna, Austria. “We’ll resume for a seventh round on Monday, November 29. Special Envoy (for Iran Robert) Malley will again lead the U.S. participation in these talks,” Price said. The talks are between Iran and the deal’s …

Iran-HRM – An inmate dies after being brutalized by prison guards in Sanandaj, the capital of the Iranian Kurdistan Province. Khosrow Jamalifar, 26, lost his life in the Central Prison of Sanandaj on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, after prison guards beat him up. The reason for his death was a strike at the head. Mr. Jamalifar had been in prison …

CHRI – British Government “does nothing to disincentivize Iran’s hostage-taking” November 2, 2021 – Two British citizens spent the night in frigid temperatures outside the Foreign Office in London on November 2, 2021, in a bid to gain freedom for their loved ones who are unjustly jailed in Iran. “Following a tradition among political prisoners in Iran of resorting to life-threatening measures …

freebeacon – Illicit Iranian oil sales to China have soared in recent months as the Biden administration attempts to reenter the 2015 nuclear accord, raising concerns from Iran experts that the United States is turning a blind eye to sanctions violations in a bid to entice Iran back to the bargaining table. China imported nearly 800,000 barrels of Iranian crude …

Al-Monitor – Exactly one week after the national Iranian men’s soccer team tied South Korea 1-1 in a crucial 2022 World Cup qualifier in the empty Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Saudi fans — both male and female — loudly cheered at Prince Faisal Bin Fahad Stadium in Riyadh as Saudi Al Hilal club took on Iran’s Persepolis in the quarterfinals …

RFL/RE – Tehran says the United States has to offer guarantees that it will not abandon again a nuclear deal with Iran in order to ensure the success of current talks to revive the 2015 pact.“The U.S. President, lacking authority, is not ready to give guarantees. If the current status quo continues, the result of negotiations is clear,” Ali Shamkhani, …

RFL/RE – The hunger-striking husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held in Iran for five years, says the British government is not doing enough to secure his wife’s release. Richard Ratcliffe began a hunger strike on October 24 outside the Foreign Office in London to highlight his wife’s situation, a week after she lost her appeal on a second …