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The Farda Briefing: Iran Denies Role In Rushdie Attack Despite Praise In Hard-Line Media

RFL/RE – Three days after British-American author Salman Rushdie was seriously wounded in a shocking knife attack in New York, Iran “categorically” denied any links with the suspected attacker, 24-year-old Lebanese-American Hadi Matar. The Islamic republic, however, managed to place the blame on Rushdie, who has lived under an Iranian death sentence since 1989 because of his novel The Satanic …

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Iran Says It’s Ready To Implement ‘Immediate’ Prisoner Swap Agreement With U.S.

RFL/RE – Tehran says it is ready to implement a prisoner swap with the United States and urged President Joe Biden to “act” and “remove obstacles” to making progress on the subject. Tehran has long sought the return of more than a dozen Iranians currently held in the United States, while Washington has been seeking the release of several Iranian-American …

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U.S., EU Studying Iran’s Response To ‘Final’ Text For Nuclear Deal

RFL/RE- The United States and European Union said on August 16 that they were examining Iran’s response to a “final” draft text to revive a nuclear deal with world powers after Tehran said it submitted its views to the EU’s coordinator for the talks a day earlier. Washington said it had already given its response privately to EU foreign policy …

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Lawyer to File Complaint in UK Over Iranian Ex-Minister’s Praise of Rushdie Fatwa

Iranwire – Iranian human rights advocates in the UK are poised to file a criminal complaint against Ataollah Mohajerani, an ex-Minister of Culture who wrote a book promoting the 1989 fatwa to murder Salman Rushdie. Mohajerani, 68, now lives in London. His book A Critique of the Satanic Verses Conspiracy praised the ailing Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for “all brave Muslims” to “execute” Rushdie, …

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Faezeh Hashemi Tells Reformists: Do Not Remain Silent on the Recent Affronts

Iranwire – Outspoken politicial activist Faezeh Hashemi has called on Iran’s reformists not to remain silent in the face of a litany of injustices in Iran, as, she said, they had been in the past. In a video clip shared with IranWire, Hashemi, the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, tells the camera: “Since the last election we have …

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