Social and Political

Al-Monitor – British officials visited Iran last week to discuss ways of paying the United Kingdom’s decades-old debt to Iran, which Tehran’s envoy to London said is held up by US sanctions. Iranian Ambassador to the UK Mohsen Baharvand told reporters in London on Friday that Iran had nearly reached an agreement on the debt with the British government this …

Al-Monitor – The BBC is calling on Iran to halt its escalating campaign of cross-border threats and harassment against the British broadcaster’s journalists and their families.  In a Friday news release, the BBC said Iran has carried out a more than decade-long “campaign of harassment and intimidation, which has included death threats, freezing of assets in Iran and online attacks …

Shabtabnews — According to reports obtained by Bayan Media Network, the Islamic Republic, from its diplomats and security agencies, is currently consulting with Malaysian officials and returning to Iran “Ibrahim Ahrari”, a Sunni media activist who is a refugee in this country. Ibrahim Ahrari is one of the media figures of the opposition of the Islamic Republic, who in recent …

Al-Arabia – The US is preparing for an outcome where no deal is reached with Iran to curb its nuclear program, Washington’s lead negotiator said Thursday. But there is still time to reach a deal, and the US is ready to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal “as soon as possible, as soon as Iran is,” US Special Envoy for Iran …

RFL/RE — Shortly before midnight on August 6, 1992, police in Bonn entered the small, cluttered apartment of Fereydoun Farrokhzad, a renowned Iranian entertainer, poet, and dissident who had fled his homeland after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Farrokhzad’s neighbors in the apartment block on Riemann Street, in the southwest of the former West German capital, had been alarmed that Farrokhzad’s …

RFL/RE – As Tehran and world powers seeking to revive the moribund 2015 nuclear deal resumed talks in Vienna, the United States warned that it would take “additional measures” to block Iran’s ability to earn revenue if diplomacy over the country’s nuclear program fails.“Given the ongoing advances in Iran’s nuclear program, [President Joe Biden] has asked his team to be …

WSJ- There’s more to Iran’s high-tech arsenal than prospective nuclear weapons. The regime in Tehran also uses social media, including Twitter , to divide, defame, disable and demoralize its domestic opponents. Such warfare is often difficult to track, and it is hindering the struggle for freedom. Iran is seeing a rise in mass protests and other acts of civil disobedience, …

VOA – World powers will assess over the next few days whether Iran is serious in nuclear negotiations after it indicated it was ready to continue talks based on texts that had been agreed at the last round in June, a European source said on Friday. Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed on Thursday with the United …

Iran-HRM – On World Human Rights Day, Iran Human Rights Monitor overviews the human rights situation in Iran in 2021. The following information reflects a small part of the ongoing reality. The clerical regime’s lack of transparency and censorship makes it difficult to access information. Iran Human Rights Monitor calls on the international community to condemn and hold the Iranian regime …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran has been insisting on its conditions and demands, including that Washington and the Western powers release frozen Iranian funds before reaching an agreement, according to Tariq Alhomayed, a Saudi journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. He added that Iran was refusing to discuss ballistic missiles, drones and its terrorist militias in the Middle East as the …