Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- Mohammadreza Mazkouhi who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges is at imminent risk of execution in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, 23-year-old Mohammadreza Mazkouhi who is on death row for drug-related charges, is at imminent risk of execution in Zanjan Central Prison. An informed source told Iran Human Rights: …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday urged world powers to take a hard line against Iran in negotiations to curb the country’s nuclear program, as his top defense and intelligence officials headed to Washington amid the flailing talks. Israel has been watching with concern as world powers sit down with Iran to jump-start talks on the tattered …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [W]hen you lack a foreign policy, why not pretend that you have one by holding an international summit? To start with, what does Biden mean by democracy? Biden’s invitation excludes at least 20 long-standing allies of the United States. … Obama went around the UN and its agencies on a number of issues, including the “nuclear deal” with …

gatestoneinstitute.org – First, the document reportedly depicting Hamas as a moderate group that accepts the “two-state solution” is a bluff intended to dupe the international community. As Mashaal himself explained, even if Hamas accepts a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, that does not mean that it would ever recognize Israel’s right to exist. Second, …

Iran-HRM – A political prisoner arrested during the November 2019 uprising has been sentenced to death. Political prisoner Abbas Shelishat has received the death sentence on the alleged charge of killing one of the regime’s agents by the name of Reza Sayyadi. Mr. Shelishat, 45, has two children. He is one of the residents of Jarrahi in the Port of …

VOA – A senior U.S. State Department official on Saturday accused Iran of reneging on the compromises it made in the last round of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement and making more demands in its most recent proposals. “We can’t accept a situation in which Iran accelerates its nuclear program and slow-walks its nuclear diplomacy,” the official said, …

VOA -An Iranian air defense test on Saturday in the Natanz region of central Iran caused an explosion heard as far as 20 kilometers from the Chahid Ahmadi-Rochan nuclear complex, according to a military official and local media. “An hour ago, one of the region’s missile systems was tested to assess readiness on the ground, and there is nothing to …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “We call on President Joe Biden, Secretary Antony Blinken, and all members of Congress to stand with the Iranian people. Diplomacy with the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism is never going to produce a favorable result that benefits the American people or the Iranian people. Diplomacy with the Islamic Republic was destined to fail from day one.” — …

RFL/RE – Iran has worked for decades to bring its sewage system into the modern age. But metal thieves are throwing a wrench in the works.Authorities recently announced that the one of the country’s biggest public-works projects — the nearly 50-year effort to build a massive wastewater-treatment network in the capital — was “70 percent” done.But Masud Reza Sameni, deputy …

RFL/RE – The United States and European powers have voiced disappointment at what they said was Iran’s lack of seriousness in the latest round of negotiations on reviving a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.The talks between Iran and the remaining parties to the nuclear agreement — Britain, France, and Germany (known as the E3), China, and Russia — were resumed on …