Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime executed 11 prisoners on Saturday, July 23, 2022. The 11 prisoners whose death penalties were carried out included one prisoner in Shiraz, seven Baluch prisoners in the prisons of Zabol and Zahedan, and three prisoners in Qom. The Iranian regime has stepped up handing down death penalties and carrying them out since Ebrahim Raisi took …

Al-Monitor – After nearly a month since the last round of indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington to revive the Iran nuclear deal, hopes are fading that the countries can resolve their differences. Nasser Kanani, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said at a press conference today when asked about the state of the negotiations that the policy of the Ebrahim Raisi …

Al-Arabia – Iran said on Monday it will not be rushed into a “quick” deal reviving its faltering 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, as negotiations remain deadlocked. “They demand that Iran makes a quick decision, (insisting that) time is limited and Iran must respond quickly,” foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said at his weekly news conference, referring to Western …

RFL/RE – Iran says cameras belonging to the UN’s nuclear watchdog will not be turned back on until a deal is reached to restore a 2015 nuclear agreement with global powers. The cameras, which Tehran took down last month, were installed as part of the agreement to clear up accusations that Iran was trying to enrich uranium capable of being …

RFL/RE – Relatives of Nazanin Bahrami say the Iranian actress has been arrested by undercover police in central Tehran. Bahrami was one of some 800 women to recently sign a statement denouncing the “systematic” sexual harassment and violence against women in the Iranian film industry and had called for a mechanism to ensure those responsible were dealt with. Her relatives said Bahrami …

Iranwire – Doctors and activists have expressed alarm at a recent announcement that the names of all pregnant women in Iran will be added to an online registry from the moment they return a positive test. On July 16, Saber Jabberi, head of the Health Ministry’s Youth Population Department, told the state-aligned Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) that the Ministry had begun …

iranhr.net – Vash, two Baluch men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on July 23. Their identities have been reported as Esmail Narouyi who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges and Khaled Paraki (pictured), sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. Esmail Narouyi is reported to have been arrested on the road between Zahedan and Mashhad three years ago on …

voanews – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that reviving the landmark 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear capabilities was “still possible” but must happen “as soon as possible.” Macron also “expressed his disappointment” at the absence of progress after the suspension of talks in Vienna and underlined the need for Iran to return to …

voanews – Iran said Saturday that its intelligence agents dismantled a group linked to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, which had allegedly planned terror operations inside Iran. According to Iran’s state-run TV, members of the group had entered Iran from an unspecified neighboring country’s Kurdish-populated area. Both Turkey and Iraq have a minority Kurdish population living alongside the Iranian border. …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Putin is now inviting Iran, Turkey and Egypt to join what he sees as an expanded Eurasian economic bloc led by Russia. To achieve that, he is ready to expose some of the contradictions in his perverted world view. Putin says he wants to invest $400 billion in reviving Iran’s moribund oil industry. But at the same time …