Al-Arabia – Germany, the United Kingdom and France on Thursday urged Iran to “cease its nuclear escalation” and “urgently conclude the deal currently on the table” to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. “There has been a viable deal on the table since March,” they said in a joint statement. “We regret that Iran has not seized the diplomatic opportunity to …

Al-Arabia – Iran has arrested 13 suspected robbers accused of making off with the contents of more than 160 safe boxes from a bank branch in the capital, the judiciary said Friday. “Thirteen suspects in the robbery of Bank Melli were arrested, and large quantities of stolen property have been discovered,” Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi said, quoted by the …

RFL/RE – The Iranian Teachers’ Unions Coordination Council has called for a new round of street protests to demand higher wages and the immediate release of detained teachers from previous demonstrations as unrest in Iran continues to spread.The council said in a statement on June 9 that teachers across Iran should hold a protest rally on June 17 after four teachers were …

RFL/RE – At least two people have been killed and several others injured after a three-story building in Iran collapsed, just 17 days after a similar accident took at least 43 lives.The ILNA news agency quoted the spokesman of the country’s emergency organization as saying on June 9 that four of those rescued from the rubble of the building, which is located …

Iranwire – The Canadian government advised its citizens on June 9 to refrain from traveling to Iran due to the security situation, the threat of terrorist actions in certain areas and the danger of arbitrary detention. The warning was posted on a government website after Canada informed Iran of a decision by the province of Ontario’s Supreme Court calling the …

Iranwire – The mother of Babak Khorramdin, a filmmaker whose grisly murder sent shockwaves through Iran last year, has been sentenced to just 3.75 years in prison after admitting to helping her husband kill and dimember their son. Iran Mousavi Sani, 75, and her husband Akbar Khorramdin, 81, admitted to killing their 47-year-old son last May after parts of his body were …

CHRI – Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests *This report is embargoed until it is published on June 14, 8am EST June 9, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on the killings and mass arrests of protesters in Iran by state security forces over the last month—the latest in a long line of lethal state responses to dissent in Iran—reflects …

CHRI — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise its flawed content-moderation process for Persian-language content on the Instagram social media app. The current process has enabled Iranian state agents to manipulate Meta into removing content that is considered …

Al-Arabia – Iran is removing 27 surveillance cameras at nuclear facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi said Thursday, calling it a “serious challenge” to the UN watchdog’s work in the country. “What we have been informed is that 27 cameras… are being removed in Iran,” he told reporters. “So this of course poses a serious challenge …

Al-Arabia – Iran is suspected of ramping up efforts to develop its nuclear weapon capabilities, according to a German intelligence report released on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic is also pursuing “one of the largest missile programs in the Middle East,” the report said. The 368-page document produced by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) detailed Iran’s …