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Monthly Archives: March 2022

EU Says ‘Pause Needed’ in Iran Nuclear Talks

VOA – The EU said Friday that the talks it is chairing on the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord must be paused, days after fresh demands from Russia complicated negotiations.” A pause in #ViennaTalks is needed, due to external factors,” the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted, adding that “a final text is essentially ready and on …

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Iran nuclear talks close to collapse over Russian demands

politico— The Iran nuclear talks are on the precipice of collapse over last-minute Russian demands for sanctions protection, according to two diplomats. Negotiations have reached an impasse over the Russian requests, diplomats said, imperiling the revival of a 2015 landmark deal under which Iran limited its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.  Russia is requesting that any return to …

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Iran Authorities Deliberately Endangering Political Prisoner Lives by Denying Medical Furlough

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Several political prisoners, including Sepideh Gholiyan, Soheila Hejab, Zeinab Jalalian, Arsham Rezaee, and Abbas Vahedian-Shahroudi, who are reported to be in bad physical condition, are deprived of medical care and denied medical furlough. Iran Human Rights demands all prisoners, including political prisoners, are granted access to medical care and medical furlough. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: …

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Khamenei defends Iran’s regional strategic influence

Al-Monitor – “Regional presence grants us strategic influence and greater national power,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told members of the Assembly of Experts, a body of Iran’s most powerful clerics, constitutionally in charge of supervising his performance.  “Why do we have to give up on [such activities]?” Khamenei asked rhetorically. He was addressing criticism both at home and abroad on …

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Russian Ambassador to Tehran: Lavrov’s Comments Were ‘Misunderstood’

Iranwire – Russia’s Ambassador to Tehran has sought to pour cold water on fears that a newly-sanctioned Russia is trying to obstruct a return to the JCPOA. At a press conference on Wednesday, Levan Jagarian told reporters from ISNA, ILNA and Tasnim News Agencies, as well as the IRIB’s PressTV, that there had been a “misunderstanding”. “We will provide the …

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Newly-Sanctioned Moscow Threatens to Scupper JCPOA Talks

Iranwire – Just when it seemed talks in Vienna on something approximating the JCPOA were close to concluding, Russia turned the tables. On Saturday, March 5, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the wide-ranging sanctions now imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine posed “a problem” for the deal. Lavrov said Russia wanted “written guarantees” from the US that its trade, investment …

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Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

CHRI – Two months after two political prisoners died in Iranian state custody, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urging her to call for the immediate release of prisoner of conscience Sepideh Qoliyan, who is gravely ill and in need of urgent medical care. Qoliyan, 27, is being …

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The Takeaway: Russia, Iran major cyberthreats targeting US, says intel community

Al-Monitor – The Lead: US Intel community assesses the threats from Iran and Russia US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Director of Central Intelligence William Burns and other top national security officials are testifying this week before the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence on the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, the unclassified “collective insights” about “the most direct, serious threats to the …

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Iranian negotiator back in Vienna for ‘final days’ of talks

Al-Monitor – After a brief trip back to Tehran for consultations, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani has returned to Vienna this morning to resume talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. He met this morning with Enrique Mora, deputy secretary general of the European External Action Service.  According to an IRNA report on Bagheri Kani’s trip to Tehran, consultations and …

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