Radiofarda – Reimposed U.S. sanctions on Iran are making it more difficult and expensive for average Iranians to travel abroad, and an increase in Iranian asylum claims in Europe could see further restrictions imposed.
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France Says Planned EU Mechanism To Enable Iran Trade May Have Wider Use
Radiofarda – France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that the European Union is considering creating to enable trade with Iran could be used more broadly to help the bloc avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law.
Read More »ANALYSIS: Iran and the Financial Action Task Force impasse
Al-Arabia – What is the FATF and why are we hearing such conflicting remarks from inside the Iranian regime in this regard?
Read More »Azerbaijan Rescues Iranian Sailors ‘Poisoned By Chemicals,’ But Three Die
RFL/RE – The Azerbaijani coast guard says it has rescued several Iranian sailors who showed symptoms of chemical poisoning after receiving a distress signal on the Caspian Sea.
Read More »Pakistan Says Searching For 14 Abducted Iranian Border Guards
RFL/RE – Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told his Iranian counterpart that security forces are searching for 14 Iranian border guards who Tehran says were abducted by militants this week.
Read More »Iran: Parade Attack Continues to Drive Ahwazi Arab Arrests
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Authorities continue to arrest Ahwazi Arab citizens in connection to the attack on an Ahvaz military parade that shook the country on September 22nd.
Read More »Doctors, Coroner Plead Furlough for Sadeghi’s Chemo
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Prison authorities continue to jeopardize the post-operative course of imprisoned civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi, who was finally transferred to the hospital October 13th. Now his best hope of recovery, doctors say, is the slim chance that those same authorities will consent to a medical furlough.
Read More »Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With Serum Injections
CHRI – Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet hunger strike in Evin Prison on August 1, 2018, the day after he was arrested for peacefully advocating for women’s rights in Iran.
Read More »Iran and the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
PayvandNews – On 12 August 2018, five littoral states of the Caspian Sea (Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan) signed a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. This convention should be approved by the legislative bodies in all five states before it becomes officially binding.
Read More »Putin Says It’s Not Up To Russia To Persuade Iran To Pull Out Of Syria
Radiofarda – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that it was not up to Russia to persuade Iran to pull its forces out of Syria, and that the governments calling for Iran to leave should provide guarantees that they would not meddle in Syria’s affairs.
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