Al-Monitor – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said that more of Iran’s blocked money would be released very soon in a deal involving the release of dual nationals in Iran. The move is a sign that the nuclear negotiations, while appearing deadlocked, are still moving along. When asked by a Fars News Agency journalist about the veracity of reports that Iranian …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCIRF Chair Calls on Iran’s government to free Pastor Nadarkhani and cease its persecution of Christians in Iran. USCIRF Chair @nadinemaenza "Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is today spending his 45th birthday behind bars for his religious practices and beliefs. We call on Iran's government to free Pastor Nadarkhani and cease its persecution of Christians in …

Iranwire – Prison Narratives is a collection of reports based on the testimonies of current and former prisoners. The narrators are both prisoners of conscience and people who have been detained for “ordinary,” non-political crimes. This report is from Greater Tehran Penitentiary, otherwise known as Fashafuyeh, where tens of thousands of older people are locked up alongside younger, more able-bodied inmates. *** …

Iranwire – This week, he’ll turn 60 in prison. In the spring of 2016, when he first traveled from the United States to Iran to attend his father’s funeral, neither he nor anybody else imagined it would end up this way. Shahab Dalili is a retired captain in Iran’s merchant navy and a permanent resident of the US. His wife …

VOA – Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. Iran and the United States have engaged in indirect talks in Vienna over the past year to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and …

Iran-HRM – Twenty-two protesters were sentenced to a total of 160 years in prison, 1,480 lashes, and fines for opposing the Sabzkuh-Borujen water transfer project in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. In a photo of the lawsuit issued by the criminal court of the two cities of Borujen, the plaintiffs are the “Regional Water of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province Organization” and …

Iran-HRM – A member of the Tehran City Council confirmed the gender segregation in Tehran’s parks, saying that the Tehran municipality was providing some parks to mothers and children and that it intended to “turn these parks into family parks.” “More than 200 parks will be exclusively for women, mothers, and children,” Mohammad Agha Miri told the state-run Didban website …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Sentenced to death on drug-related charges, Hamid Rastegar and Gholamreza Paki have been executed in Isfahan Central Prison.   According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Isfahan Central Prison on the morning of March 16. Their identities have been established as 34-year-old Hamid Rastegar and 45-year-old Gholamreza Paki who …

AL-Arabia – US President Joe Biden should lift some sanctions on Iran to show his goodwill towards reviving the international nuclear agreement with Tehran, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday.Iran and the United States have engaged in indirect talks in Vienna over the past year to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement which then-US President Donald Trump left in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The second charge related to NATO’s alleged rush to included Ukraine, or what [Professor John] Mearsheimer calls “reckless expansion”, provoked Putin is equally absurd. For almost two decades, Russia made no objection to NATO enlargement that included former members of the Warsaw Pact. Under Putin, Russia even concluded a deal for cooperation with NATO on issues of mutual …