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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – UN experts issued a statement today urging Iranian authorities to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests and reiterated their call to immediately release all protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty for the sole reason of exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly and …

Al-Monitor – With the US midterm elections over, don’t be surprised if Washington and Tehran make a final run to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. US President Joe Biden preferred to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the sidelines during the campaign. The administration’s priority has instead been how to support protesters in Iran, following the death in …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s top diplomat has accused Western countries of promoting violence in the Islamic republic by helping protesters to make weapons and Molotov cocktails. Street violence has flared across Iran since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, after her arrest for allegedly flouting the country’s hijab dress code for women. Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators …

RFL/RE – Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police, a Swiss paper quoted him on November 11 as saying. “Iran should be excluded from the World Cup,” the Blick tabloid reported, saying Blatter …

IAEA – Iran has agreed to a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency this month to provide answers the U.N. watchdog and its 35-nation board have long called for on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, an IAEA report on Thursday seen by Reuters said. Iran has yet to provide new material, however, and its offer …