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Al-Arabia – A French-Iranian academic held in Iran for the past three years in a case that has raised tensions between Tehran and Paris has returned to prison after a brief furlough, her supporters said. Fariba Adelkhah was last week allowed to leave Tehran’s Evin prison for five days. Hopes that the measure may be extended were not fulfilled, her …

RFL/RE – Tehran says Salman Rushdie is to blame for the stabbing that left the award-winning author seriously wounded as Washington slammed Iranian state media for its “despicable” reaction to “this heinous attack.” RE – Tehran says Salman Rushdie is to blame for the stabbing that left the award-winning author seriously wounded as Washington slammed Iranian state media for its …

RFL/RE – Iran’s leading automaker is seeking to grab a share of the Russian market after Western producers halted output or exited the market following sanctions. Iran Khodro CEO Mehdi Khatibi made the announcement on August 14 as he unveiled the company’s latest model — the crossover Rira. “We are going to pay special attention to the Russian market, and …

Iranwire – Eleven years ago, around a week before being placed under house arrest in Iran, former 2009 presidential election candidates and Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi warned that leadership of the Islamic Republic might be on its way to becoming hereditary. “Isn’t is painful,” the pair wrote in February 2011, “that 30 years after the revolution, people have to worry again …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “The US has started packing its bags to leave the Middle East. It is no longer able to impose maximum pressure on us.” — Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, August 4, 2022. Like their patrons in Tehran, these proxies are all staunchly committed to the destruction of Israel and the killing of …